On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:54:35 -0500, Dale wrote: > Curious. I hope I don't start a flame war here. I have had WD, Seagate > and I think there is a Samsung here somewhere, may be the one that is > rolling over on its back now. The one drive that failed a few years ago > was a WD drive. That said, all the other WD drives I have had just got > to small to really use, and slow when SATA came out. I'm partial to WD > and Seagate still since I got good long term use out of those. Based on > your experience, you tend to be of the same opinion? > > Allan, your situation should involve a lot of hard drives. Any > thoughts? Neil, you have a nice big opinion on this?
Yes, mix drives from different manufacturers. Or buy them at different times. All manufacturers can have bad batches (remember the IBM Deathstar?). I bought two Seagate drives a couple of years ago, for use in a RAID. The only time I have ignored my own advice on this matter (other matters are way off topic!). After a year they both started showing SMART errors and one of them failed soon after, the other was replaced before it had a chance to fail. Yes, it's anecdotal, but it makes sense - true redundancy means using different sources. -- Neil Bothwick I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
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