Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID

Alan
2007-02-28T12:03:58Z

> > Would you use MD at all, taking in account the disks come from the
> > same batch and all? I hear these things about MD/RAID being pointless
> > when you use disks from the same brand/type/batch since they most
> > likely will break shortly after each other.
>
> Well, for values of "shortly" in months in most cases. These are
> consumer goods, I would not expect units with consecutive serial numbers
> to fail separated by such a short time that you can't do a backup and/or

I've had them fail within days when using almost identical serial
numbers. Nowdays I just mix disk vendors on each array. End of problem.