For example, if you group three 1 GB drives and one 2 GB drive into an array, the total capacity of the array is 1 GB times 4, or 4 GB, not the 5 GB physically available. The remaining space on the 2 GB drive is unusable capacity.
Conversely, if you add a smaller drive to an array of larger drives, such as a 1 GB drive to a group containing three 2 GB drives, the total capacity of that array is 4 GB, not the 7 GB physically available. Therefore, the optimal way to create arrays is to use hard disk drives that have the same capacity.
A Hot-spare drive also must be at least as large as the smallest drive in the array.