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Reminds me of the time back in the day when Dell shipped us a server with drives serial numbers being consecutive. Of course both failed at the same time and I
by sschueller 2y ago
Reminds me of the time back in the day when Dell shipped us a server with drives serial numbers being consecutive.
Of course both failed at the same time and I spent an all nighter doing a restore.
- jll29 2y agoI ordered my NAS drives on Amazon, to avoid getting the same batch (all consecutive serial numbers) I used amazon.co.uk for one half and amazon.de for the other half of them. One could also stage the orders in time.
- orbital-decay 2y agoYeah, the risk of the rest of the old drives failing under high load while rebuilding/restoring is also very real, so staging is necessary as well. I don't exactly hoard data by dozens of terabytes, but I rotate my backup drives each few years, with a 2-year difference between them.
- Tempest1981 2y agoBack in the day, I remember driving to different Frys and Central Computers stores to get a mix of manufacturing dates.