On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Christopher Samuel <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/05/17 21:40, John Hearns wrote: > >> Also remember that pairs of disks probably came off the production line >> as similar times. So this is probabyl a twins paradox! > > At my previous HPC gig we lost 2 drives in a RAID-5 array within a few > minutes of each other. They were manufactured on the same day.
all of my contracts have a "part-randomization" clause in them to ensure vendor's randomize the batches they pull parts from to build the machines. hopefully everyone else's does too... :) _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
