Can I mix HDD manufacturers in RAID
Hallo everyone,
I just got into reading about home servers a week ago. After watching a lot of Videos about people setting up basic home systems I'd trust myself enough to give it a go.
My usecase would be mainly for saving Fotos as my GoogleDrive storrage is constantly full. Also I want to use it to host my own video streaming as I allready have 1TB of movies on my PC.
Now the important part:
Because I'm on a budget and have an old windows machine laying around I'm looking for used HDD drives. As far as my googled knowledge takes me I decided I want to run my server in RAID (haven't decided what kind). So I know that the drives have to have the same compassity or othewise RAID will only use as much storage as the smallest drive has.
Here is my main question:
Can I just use any HDDs with the same amount of storage in my System or do I have to look for ones of the same manufacturer?
I hope my question got to the point. Pls let me know if I forgot something completle. I really apreceate anyone sharing knowledge with a newbie.
Thanks for reading and Have a nice Day :)