[Novalug] raid mirror

[Aaron Porter]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Jon LaBadie<novalugml at jgcomp.com> wrote:
> I've got an older system that I am retasking.
> It contains two similar sized (160GB) drives.
> But they have different rotation speeds (5400
> and 7200 rpm).
>
> Am I correct that it would NOT be good to use
> these different speed drives in a raid 1 mirror?

I'd file it under "not ideal" but far from a bad idea. Your writes
will be limited by the 5.4k rpm disk, but if you can live with that go
for it. Free is free.