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I'm wondering if the fact mine were He filled refurbs could've been a factor.
by leetbulb 7y ago
I'm wondering if the fact mine were He filled refurbs could've been a factor.
- linker3000 7y agoBeyond a functional test, checking the SMART data for an indication of overall drive state and He containment, and then giving the drive a quick clean, it would be interesting to know the supplier's scope for 'refurbishing' an He drive.
- gnode 7y agoThat all three drives lasted this long then failed within a month is very suspect. This sounds less like random failure indicative of the quality of refurbished drives in general, and more like a defect common to all three drives. Because of such plagues, data-centre operators often mix drives of different manufacturers, models, batches and ages. Running heterogeneous devices in a redundant array helps makes the failure distribution more random so that the safety margin is less likely to be suddenly overwhelmed by correlated failures.
- leetbulb 7y agoMakes sense to mix drives. I do this with my personal NAS (~24 drives) and has worked out nicely even at such a small scale.