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

[George Bourozikas]

On Friday 01 June 2007 14:08:24 sixtyfourbeets wrote:
> 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

Fascinating.  Care to back this up with some statistics?  Like bell 
curves of drive failures for different models, manufacturers, etc.?

--george