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.