From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: Iordan Iordanov <iordan@cdf.toronto.edu>
Cc: Lasse Jensen <fafler@gmail.com>,
hansbkk@gmail.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Assembling RAID 5 array with missing superblock
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:27:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D66950D.2090200@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D6682F9.1000700@cdf.toronto.edu>
On 24/02/2011 16:10, Iordan Iordanov wrote:
> Hey,
>
>> I used IBM back when they made the infamous DeathStar drives. Havent
>> brought a IBM/Hitachi drive since. I guess i'm going to feel the same
>> way about WD drives now. Maybe i should just mix'n'match manufactures.
>> They can't all be that bad,
>
> Mixing and matching drive manufacturers seems like an excellent idea,
> since it makes it less likely that drives will die in droves at the same
> time, which makes for a generally saver RAID. On this mailing list we
> know that drives fail and expect it, that's why we are on it :)
Indeed. I started my home server off with a 3-drive RAID-5, with 3
identical drives with consecutive serial numbers. One started giving
building pending sectors within a month, another after 9 months. By now
I have 6 drives in RAID-6 from 3 manufacturers with varying
power-on-hours and no two from the same batch.
Cheers,
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-24 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-23 14:05 Assembling RAID 5 array with missing superblock Lasse Jensen
2011-02-23 20:55 ` Jaap Crezee
[not found] ` <AANLkTikDCd1NiXzv28_KiGa8OmpmeWFRKoeZMfj_JdiD@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-24 8:17 ` Lasse Jensen
2011-02-24 16:10 ` Iordan Iordanov
2011-02-24 17:27 ` John Robinson [this message]
2011-03-03 6:50 ` Lasse Jensen
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