Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 13:43:32 CDT 2008
It depends most on what RAID driver you have. With something like HP for example, you will have no problem. Some of the cheaper drivers, not so lucky. What will happen, however, is that the 15k RPM drive will only run at 10k. hth, Arthur On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:11 PM, James Barash <James at fcidms.com> wrote: > One of the drives in a 3 drive Raid 5 Array on our server died overnight. > Fortunately, we have a spare which is being rebuilt as I write. I went > looking for a replacement for the spare, since this is the second drive to > fail, and discovered that the same drive is no longer available: 73GB, 10K > RPM, 80-pin SCSI U320. > What we can get is the same drive at 15K RPM. Other than spindle speed, the > specs are the same. > > My question is, will there be a problem running drives with different RPMs > in the same array? > > Thanks, > James Barash > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >