Mixing SAS and SATA drives on the same array under software RAID?

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nk215

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Oct 6, 2015
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Hi guys,

The conventional wisdom stated that you shouldn't mix SATA and SAS drive on the same array with hardware RAID.

With software raid, this should not be an issue (FreeNAS or linux mdadm). However people still advocate against it.

Anyone here fix the 2 drives on the same software defined array? I am thinking about doing just that on NAS.

Thanks