On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Not that I know, but then again, I buy enterprise grade drives for my > RAIDs. I guess the consumer grade stuff could be wonky like that. > Enterprise grade fails too, but shipping mixes them up so customers don't see it, even if there is a single bad line. As I understand it the drive's life is mostly limited because of the tolerances of the components; if you have a single run of every component in manufacturing, it is somewhat more likely they will fail at about the same time in the same usage environment. On the other hand your enterprise drives probably have a 10 or 20 year MTBF, by which time you've already replaced them. Of course you are probably using RAID 5 or 6 too, so even if you have a couple drives fail at almost the same time you can easily recover. If two drives out of a RAID 0 fail, and that -was- your backup, you have a problem. :) Best, Tim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
