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Re:Installing FreeNAS on my QNAP TS-459 by linsomniac on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @12:04AM (#23535849)
I'm reminded of those HP drives that would brick themselves after a certain number of operating hours. People had every drive in their RAID array fail at once.
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Re:Installing FreeNAS on my QNAP TS-459 by zepearl on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @05:38PM (#23544544)
Ooook, ok, I got it - not a great idea to buy HDDs of the same brand => I'll try to remember this :)

But: in such a case, having a normal raid5/raidZ1 or even a raid6/raidZ2, etc..., you might still get scrd by just having 2/3/4 such HP-drives in such a raid (that might be composed of 8/9/10 drives), right?

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Re:Installing FreeNAS on my QNAP TS-459 by ValentineC on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:54AM (#23551378)
> you might still get scrd by just having 2/3/4 such HP-drives in such a raid (that might be composed of 8/9/10 drives), right?

That's true. Ah well, you know what people say: RAID is for high-availability, not a replacement for proper backups.

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Re:Installing FreeNAS on my QNAP TS-459 by zepearl on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:03PM (#23580214)
That's true :D
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