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

[Peter C. Norton]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 03:35:28PM -0400, sixtyfourbeets 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.
> *
> Oddly enough, from my conversation with a google staffer, google's
> internal studies do bear out that a single manfucturing lot can be
> statistally identified by their failure rate and type of failure. It
> means nothing about any other makers drives.
> ---------------------------
> Are you having a slow day Peter? You are paraphrasing pretty much what
> I said previous.

Actually, I was backing up your supposition with something far closer
to data from a place that uses drives in a quantity that neither you
nor I will probably ever do.

BTW, they're all ATA/SATA at google.

-Peter

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