On 7/11/2013 3:43 AM, Chris Davies wrote: > Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: >> It's best to use identical drives with identical firmware, which means >> buying all your drives up front from the same lot. > > I had always understood that best practice was the opposite of this > recommendation, so as to help protect against a single point of failure > such as bad firmware or even a bad manufacturing batch.
This is because you've never worked with enterprise storage. The rules are quite different than for hobbyist level systems. > Can you help clarify, please? Se my detailed response to Henrique. -- Stan -- 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/51df2846.1050...@hardwarefreak.com
