From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Patrick Ale <patrick.ale@gmail.com>,
Michael-Luke Jones <jonesml@fastmail.to>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:02:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070228130247.080d19f3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45E4E036.20507@tmr.com>
> > 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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-28 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-24 10:10 Patrick Ale
2007-02-24 15:24 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-02-24 17:11 ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-02-24 17:19 ` Patrick Ale
2007-02-26 8:30 ` Patrick Ale
2007-02-26 8:37 ` Neil Brown
2007-02-28 1:51 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-28 13:02 ` Alan [this message]
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