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

[John Drescher]

> 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.
>

That is how it goes with linux software raid as well. I know because I
manage 12 to 15 linux software raid5/6 arrays.

John