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Re:I wound up causing a major outage of my services and dest... by vidarh on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:56AM (#30385682)
My home fileserver has drives from four different manufacturers after I 20 years ago had bad experiences with closely correlated drive failures (the infamous IBM Death Star batch)

I've never deployed anything without at a minimum mixing batches, and usually vendors since.

We avoided data loss, but had a tense two weeks while cycling drives out as fast as we could (we had backups, but having to shut everything down to replace drives and restore would have been massively costly)

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Re:I wound up causing a major outage of my services and dest... by mst on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:50PM (#30388821)
Those were actually some of my favourite drives cost wise ... -after- the problems happened.

Turned out at least on the ones I had that it was always the outer edges of the platter that failed, so a (from 20 year old memory, may be wrong) 60Gb Death Star if carefully partitioned out to a maximum of about 58Gb ran absolutely beautifully and you could get them dirt cheap because (understandably if you weren't a crazy person like me) almost nobody wanted to touch them at that point.

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