On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > At some point in the future, I may buy one or two additional HDD and use > > hardware RAID. > > It's best to use identical drives with identical firmware, which means > buying all your drives up front from the same lot. You also need to
That is a fast way to data loss. You do not want the drives to fail close to each other, so get them from different manufacturing lots, preferably with different manufacturing dates separated by at least 6 months. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130711162544.ga15...@khazad-dum.debian.net
