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Buying two identical drives has high chances of them being from a single batch, which makes them physically almost identical. It’s a pretty well-known raid-rela
by wruza 3y ago
Buying two identical drives has high chances of them being from a single batch, which makes them physically almost identical. It’s a pretty well-known raid-related fact, but some people aren’t aware of it or don’t take it seriously.
- short_throw 3y agoIdentical twins may both die of a heart attack, but not usually at the same time. Normally, failures come from some amount of non-repeatability or randomness that the systems weren't robust to. The drive industry is special (in a bad way) in that they can exactly reproduce their flaws, and most people's intuition isn't prepared for that.