Mix and Match - yes or no?

woca

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• Feb 16, 2007

• #1

I was wondering if you guys suggest mixing hard drive companies or if it really doesn't matter.

I plan on getting a Seagate for storage such as music and that stuff, and a WD raptor for games.

 

Immortal_Hero

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• Feb 16, 2007

• #2

It does not matter the maker of the HDD. I use Segates and WDs.

 

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doublejack

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• Feb 16, 2007

• #3

Agreed. Mixing manufacturers is fine and there are no negative side effects.

 

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chrispycrunch

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• Feb 20, 2007

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it works fine - in the past i had problems with PATA mixing but with SATA it is no problem at all.

 

tuskenraider

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• Feb 20, 2007

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Mixing PATA drives should never be a problem if they're jumpered right or any drive for that matter.

 

Adragontattoo

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• Feb 20, 2007

• #6

looking at my current rig,


no problems at all.

2 PATA HDD
1 PATA DVD burner
2 SATA

 

Automata

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• Feb 21, 2007

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woca said:

I was wondering if you guys suggest mixing hard drive companies or if it really doesn't matter.

I plan on getting a Seagate for storage such as music and that stuff, and a WD raptor for games.

Click to expand...

On my rig, I'm running a Seagate and Maxtor in a RAID0. No problems at all!

 

aftermath

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• Feb 21, 2007

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I did raid 10 with pairs of drives from two manufactures. Oddly it was the first choice drives that failed, NOT because of the configuration though. The WD 2 went on strong, now paired with 2 more WD drives and running 4-->5 years later in my test/toy server.

mixing manufactures can help when one has a bad product generation.