okay good to know , i didnt want to post a bug report since i thought i was forgetting something <| sep |> I smell a custom <| sep |> you even put the apple sauce beats on there . now thats dedication . <| sep |> Yes , certainly . I was suggesting the flipbook as an alternative if the burning object doesn ' t move , or if performance is an issue . <| sep |> As well as the support and blame storming issues , you could find sourcing a drive that matches your existing ones in a raid set difficult in a couple of years . That could put an array in jeopardy if you ' re scouring vendors for the model you need being in stock . Especially if its a less popular model . If you ' re paying for a decent warranty like 3 or 5 yrs you ' ll not have much trouble in the short term disk goes and Dell will have a spare out to you NBD or even within 4 hrs if you pay for that . There is nothing like the worry of a compromised array and awaiting the arrival of disks . Even now I ' ve a server that ' s out of warranty and we ' ve no spares on site and ordering the same from Dell is taking over a week . If you ' re gonna go down this route have a stock of spares offline or ensure your chassis has some space for hot spares if this is a critical system . If you ' re really keen to not have Dell disks maybe go away from hardware RAID altogether and consider ZFS or BTRFS or something like that utilising software RAID . You don ' t necessarily need even the same drive types nor size at all . You can still have RAID 1 or RAID 10 etc Beware RAID 56 on btrfs they have a bug at the moment . Software RAID was to be avoided for performance traditionally but things are changing .