On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 02:36:16AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: [...] > Well but it's not a bad point either, is it? > And when we remember back at the issues (IIRC) Seagate had with the > firmwares of some of it's devices, that suddenly stopped working at some > special date... than it could easily happen you're screwed with having > all disks from one vendor i.e. with the same type. > > I vaguely remember that back then there were even cases where firmware > updates didn't help anymore... but I may be wrong on that. Hi Chris, we have some workstation with RAID5, 4 HDDs, from 4 different vendors (at that time there were 4). We notice smart errors at a different rate, time and type, but almost always in the same way for each brand. In other words, yes, it helped to have different brands. The only thing, you must confirm the size. Ours are all identical, but I can imagine there could be minor differences, expecially from 512B to 4096B. bye, -- piergiorgio -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
