Using same size drives but different manufacturer in RAIDZ2 or RAIDZ3

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My drives:

4 x 4TB WD Red
2 x 4TB Seagate Ironwolf

So I’m planning on doing RAIDZ2 or RAIDZ3 with 6 4TB drives. I already had the 4 WD drives and this black friday there was a sale on the seagate drives. Will this cause a problem when creating the vdev?

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Nope, it will work fine

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this is actually recommended by the paranoid

firmware bugs are like 0-days for your storage.
my ideal nas has no two of the same drive.
the newer builds of ZFS (i think as of freebsd 12) handle heterogeneous pools really well

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