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

[alex khalil]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
>On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Henning Follmann wrote:

>> 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.
>Unfortunately, even the worst trolls are occasionally right. Yes, drives 
>from same batch often fail concurrently. IE. the correlation between 
>failure times on same batch is non-zero. 
>
>There are some papers on that too.

  Once, I received a batch of 10 Western Digital drives, 6 of which were
faulty.

alex