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That isn't something I'd ever thought about until now. Would it make sense to use drives from more than one company as they would very different failure charac
by michaelbuckbee 17y ago
That isn't something I'd ever thought about until now.
Would it make sense to use drives from more than one company as they would very different failure characteristics?
- vidarh 17y agoPossibly. IBM had the infamous bad run of DeskStar (or was it another model?) drives about 8-9 years ago... We got a batch of them - in that case it wouldn't have helped you to buy them from different distributors or otherwise tried to get a different batch as the number of problematic drives was huge. At least they were extremely good about replacing them no questions asked and we got them all replaced before we lost data.
- astine 17y agoDeskStar (or was it another model?) DeskStar is right. They earned the nickname "DeathStar" because they failed so often.
- wmf 17y agoWould it make sense to use drives from more than one company as they would very different failure characteristics? This is probably difficult to take advantage of unless you setup your RAID layout very carefully.
- blasdel 17y agoIt's a terrible idea to mix and match drive models, because they'll have drastically different performance characteristics, and if you're lucky you'll only get a little worse than the lowest common denominator on all axes. What quality OEMs do is make sure they never ship you drives from the same manufacturing batch in one enclosure.
- DTrejo 17y agoHow do you make sure to buy from a quality OEM?