[CentOS] One of my servers crashed, need help

Sat Jun 20 02:05:35 UTC 2009
Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Bob Hoffman<bob at bobhoffman.com> wrote:
>> > Be prepared to restore from a backup too, doesn't look good.
>
>> No need to...Seagate screws me again. 3rd bad hard drive on
>> this server.
>> Unbelievable. Under warranty, but...grrrr.
>
> One tip I try to adhere to, although hard to follow when setting up a new
> computer is this...
>
> Try to get drives from different manufacturing batches. Buy from different
> online stores, talk to the cust service of places like newegg, etc...
>
> If you buy a drive that was part of a bad batch the drive may still survive.
> The likely hood of it having an issue is high though. If that batch has
> problems there is high probablility all your drives in that batch can go
> bad.
>
> Hard to take the time, but seems worth it. If one fails, all can fail if
> from the same batch. Lessen odds, buy different batches.

That is probably excellent advice, if one does not need identical
drives, for RAID or something. Several times, in the past 7 1/2 years,
on the OLM support site, I've seen where a server is down because of
multiple drive failures.