On 2024-01-17, Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote: > > This is just weird. > I still have difficulties to believe that any disk manufacturer would > hand out disks with colliding serial numbers. I googled for this > phenomenon, but except two mails of Gene nothing similar popped up.
I discovered a couple of discussions of the phenomenon, the upshot of which were: 1) That's what you get when you purchase cheap SSDs. https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/s0rrpo/two_sata_ssds_with_identical_serial_numbers/ 2) SSDs belonging to the same software RAID show identical serial numbers in software, but these numbers don't match the serial numbers printed on the SSDs themselves. https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/s0rrpo/two_sata_ssds_with_identical_serial_numbers/ But you said *similar*. As Gene's threads have too many movable parts for me to follow, on that point I couldn't say.
