[nylug-talk] How to set up Raid 1 on Ubuntu, Or Linux in gerneral

[Henning Follmann]

On Jun 1, 2007, at 2:08 PM, sixtyfourbeets wrote:
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>
> Convention dictates that when constructing
> a true SAN one should buy drives from different
> manufacturers.  Doing so addresses
> the concern that a particular drive will not be the same
> as the next drive in the SAN.  The reasoning behind that
> is if drives are from different manufactures chances are
> less likely that the drives will fail in a similar fashion
> in a reasonably short time span.
>
> Steve M
> ______________________________________________________________________ 
> _______

Sorry there is no reasonable logic in what you just wrote.

Do you seriously think that two hard drives because they are built on  
a same day in the same place will fail also on the same day?
I think it is more likely two win twice in the lottery in the same  
week with the same numbers.

Henning

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