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Re:Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running co... by eeZah7Ux on Sunday January 29, 2017 @05:24PM (#13517139)
By running statistics on a large enough infrastructure you can see how frequently 2 hard drives in the same raid fail within days, or even hours!

Same brand, same batch, operating time, running temperature, even same vibration does trick. :(

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Re:Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running co... by chiph on Sunday January 29, 2017 @07:23PM (#13517715)
We had 3 hard drives (the legendary IBM DeathStars) from the same production batch fail within hours of each other. Part of me was like "Yeah! Awesome quality control!" and a larger part was like "Oh shit." We ended up losing the array and had to restore from backup.
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