I am building a NAS in RAID 1 (Mirror) mode. Should I buy 2 of the same drive from the same manufacturer? or does it not matter so much?

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Right up until that job to turn the other drive and run the backup stops and then you don’t realize it until 17 months later.

Either way, RAID ain’t a backup, but it makes losing a drive easier.

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If you don’t setup and monitor things properly everything fails and keep going in an unpredictable state - even a software RAID.

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