[mythtv-users] [OT] Western Digital buying Hitachi

[Alex Butcher]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm at gmail.com>
>
>>> And their warranty return support was amazingly good when I returned
>>> a drive recently. Hope WD can be as good.
>>
>> WDC is good at that. They often upgrade your disks. For example the
>> last 2 RMAs to WDC we sent in 500GB black drives and got back 1TB
>> black drives.
>
> Yeah, cause *that'll* make my RAID 5 work better.  :-)

It shouldn't make it work any worse. The extra space will just go unused
until all the drives in the array are the same size, and you can resize the
array accordingly. At least, that's how it goes with LSI MegaRAID 300-8x and
it should work the same with md. Anything else, YMMV, I suppose.

> Cheers,
> -- jra

Best Regards,
Alex