Not necessarily from different vendors as much as from different build
lots, etc.
The theory is ... items build from the same components at the same time
and the same place should fail/EOL at about the same time (all things
being equal).
In practice, I have not seen that. If you are
Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
On Saturday 28 July 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Alexander Georgiev wrote:
...
Ok, and should I mix disks from different vendors? I have read
somewhere that this augments the reliability of the array, lowering
the probability of 2 disks and more go down
Alexander Georgiev wrote:
I have used raid aware and non-raid aware disks for both hardware and
software
raid. You really want the raid edition drives, as they will send a fail up
the
channel much faster than a non-raid drive. The non-raid drives will retry
over
and over, and you stand a
Alexander Georgiev spake the following on 7/27/2007 5:32 AM:
Hi people,
I am building a cheap remote rsync backup server using a software raid
5 array of 4 500GB disks. What I have available on the market is:
1. HITACHI GST Deskstar T7K500 500GB 7200rpm 16MB cache Serial ATA II-300
2.
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