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by rbanffy 1295 days ago
> We had pairs of drives of one manufacturer/speed mirrored with pairs of drives from another manufacturer/speed.

The different speed is an issue, but I always recommend mixing pairs so that you don’t end up like me, when all spinning metal of the same RAID-5 array failed in a short period. Wasn’t a great day.

Lucky me I had a contingency plan.