On Saturday 28 July 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Alexander Georgiev wrote: ... > > Ok, and should I mix disks from different vendors? I have read > > somewhere that this augments the reliability of the array, lowering > > the probability of 2 disks and more go down simultaneously? > > Not necessarily from different vendors as much as from different build > lots, etc. > > The theory is ... items build from the same components at the same time > and the same place should fail/EOL at about the same time (all things > being equal). > > In practice, I have not seen that. I havn't seen that either. But what I have seen is a raid controller acting up as a function of some random micro property of a specific drive model. So, I would very much not want more than one type of drive in a raid as that would double the amount of strangeness the controller would have to deal with. /Peter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070729/0b4707a0/attachment-0005.sig>