Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID

[Alan]

> > Would you use MD at all, taking in account the disks come from the
> > same batch and all? I hear these things about MD/RAID being pointless
> > when you use disks from the same brand/type/batch since they most
> > likely will break shortly after each other.
> 
> Well, for values of "shortly" in months in most cases. These are 
> consumer goods, I would not expect units with consecutive serial numbers 
> to fail separated by such a short time that you can't do a backup and/or 

I've had them fail within days when using almost identical serial
numbers. Nowdays I just mix disk vendors on each array. End of problem.
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