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EADS and EZRX in RAID 1?

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‎05-16-2012 04:35 PM

I've had two Western Digital 1T WD10EADS drives in a RAID 1 array for 2 years and one of the drives has just failed. EADS aren't available anymore, so can I put in a EZRX instead?

 

I'm using the onboard intel RAID controller (Intel Rapid Storage Technology)

 

Will it work?

 

One thing that concerns me is that the EADS drives had a sector size of 512 bytes, but the newer drives use 4096. Will this make the RAID 1 array really slow?

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Re: EADS and EZRX in RAID 1?

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‎05-17-2012 11:42 AM

EZRX should work fine on RAID 1

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Re: EADS and EZRX in RAID 1?

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‎05-17-2012 02:05 PM

Thanks Wizer. So just to be clear, do you think EZRX will work fine with EADS in RAID 1? I'm sure 2 x EZRX would be ok, but I'm putting in EZRX along side EADS.

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