On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, David Romerstein wrote: > My gut tells me that, if one drive in a new-ish device fails, the > likelihood of a second failing at-or-near the same time is pretty high, as > the drives themselves are likely to be from the same manufacturing batch.
Your gut and my experience. I've always recommended that raid arrays be built using drives from different manufacturers and batches, in order to avoid this kind of issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
