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Something I haven't seen emphasized enough with this move is that by obfuscating a drive's vendor and manufacture date, you won't know if your drives are from t
by npunt 1y ago
Something I haven't seen emphasized enough with this move is that by obfuscating a drive's vendor and manufacture date, you won't know if your drives are from the same batch. This is important because if there's any manufacturing defects in a given batch of drives, the failures are likely to happen around the same time, greatly increasing the chance of losing data.
Basically, Synology drives are not only more expensive, they're also statistically speaking less reliable when building a RAID with them, negating the very purpose of the product. What a dumb move.
- dredmorbius 1y agoI still love the example some here may recall, where HN itself was hit by this with two disks within a RAID array AND THE BACKUP SERVER all failed within hours of one another: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048148> Resulting in, FWIW, my top-rated-ever HN comment, I think: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048149>