> If I were going to run RAID-1, I would pick two disks of the > same size but different brands (Samsung and Hitachi 250Gb > say). If you buy two disks of the same brand at the same > time from the same supplier, it always seems to me that you > increase the chance that a) they come from the same batch b) > therefore if one has some production-line-related fault, the > other is more likely to have the same fault. > > --Alex >
Actually, this is an excellent advise for the fact mentioned above, and as well some RAID-1 controllers actually malfunction when one of the two identical disks goes bad. So you'll have to physically disconnect the bad disk from the card. This happened to me on a Promise Controller. You'll even see a notice about it in the new Promise controllers User Guide ! Tamouh _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
