On 2024-01-17, Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, > > Curt wrote: >> 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/ > > Those URLs are identical. (OMG ! Is it contageous ?)
Human error may very be: https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/18fe6ez/how_to_fix_2_drives_with_same_serial_number/ > Number 2 would match my suspicion that some layer in the disk driving > gets confused and mixes up the serial numbers. > > >> But you said *similar*. > > By "colliding serial numbers" i mean indeed "identical serial numbers". > > How cheap the disks may ever be, that would be no excuse for not making > them individually distinguishable. > > >> As Gene's threads have too many movable parts >> for me to follow, on that point I couldn't say. > > This one begins to gain presence in the web. So one can use search engines > and AI to untangle its sub-threads. I meanwhile participate in two of them: > serial number collision, rsync caused OOM killer (solved now, but how ?). > > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas > > --
