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| leapinlew:
I prefer different manufacturers when possible. I've gotten bad lots and ended up with hard drives that all fail very close in time frame to each other. I think that's what happened with my RAID5 that blew a drive and then lost another drive trying to rebuild the array to a hot spare. I'm a little OCD about some things but keeping my hard drives the same isn't one of them. |
| jdbailey1206:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on June 04, 2015, 10:07:56 pm ---I prefer different manufacturers when possible. I've gotten bad lots and ended up with hard drives that all fail very close in time frame to each other. --- End quote --- Never thought about this Lew. We'll see how mine works out when I get my HD enclosure next week. |
| dkersten:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on June 04, 2015, 10:07:56 pm ---I prefer different manufacturers when possible. I've gotten bad lots and ended up with hard drives that all fail very close in time frame to each other. I think that's what happened with my RAID5 that blew a drive and then lost another drive trying to rebuild the array to a hot spare. I'm a little OCD about some things but keeping my hard drives the same isn't one of them. --- End quote --- I have seen this too, but I still prefer to stick to one brand, model, and size. But then I don't touch raid any more unless it is in my work environment, and when you have 3 to 24 drives in an array, mixing and matching seems to be a bad idea. In my personal PC's I no longer care about the minor performance bump, particularly since SSD's became mainstream, and personal computers just get heavier with redundant drives. |
| leapinlew:
Agreed since the more drives you have, the more you'd probably lean away from RAID 5 anyhow. If I had a 3 drive array, it wouldn't bother me if they were all 3 different manufacturers. |
| lilshawn:
you haven't lived till you've put everything you have on a raid 0...and not have a backup plan. also, totally unrelated ;D , i'll be shutting down my NAS server (raid 0) that has been online the last 500 or so days now... to move in the next few weeks....hopefully it comes back online. I'll be buying a drive to back it up before shutdown....just in case. I should probably buy a few new drives and change that to a raid 10 instead. :cheers: |
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