downsides to running RAID on unmatched drives?

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Published on 2010-01-22T05:12:44Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 18:45 UTC
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I've got some generic RAID controller built into my motherboard and I want to build either a RAID 5 or RAID 0+1 array. What are the disadvantages of running unmatched drives? Like 4 different brand 7200rpm 500gb drives?

This would determine whether I look around for whatever used drives I could get my hands on vs. paying extra for a set of matched identical drives.

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