On 24/02/2011 16:10, Iordan Iordanov wrote:
Hey,
I used IBM back when they made the infamous DeathStar drives. Havent
brought a IBM/Hitachi drive since. I guess i'm going to feel the same
way about WD drives now. Maybe i should just mix'n'match manufactures.
They can't all be that bad,
Mixing and matching drive manufacturers seems like an excellent idea,
since it makes it less likely that drives will die in droves at the same
time, which makes for a generally saver RAID. On this mailing list we
know that drives fail and expect it, that's why we are on it :)
Indeed. I started my home server off with a 3-drive RAID-5, with 3
identical drives with consecutive serial numbers. One started giving
building pending sectors within a month, another after 9 months. By now
I have 6 drives in RAID-6 from 3 manufacturers with varying
power-on-hours and no two from the same batch.
Cheers,
John.
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