Anyone Else Addicted to Different Drives in an Array?

[poofyhairguy]

I was wondering if anyone has taken my approach to Unraid and has worked hard to make every drive in their server different? I am up to 12 different drives so far:

 

 

I like it because when I hit bad models (like the stupid EADS I RMAed 3 times) I only have to replace on drive in the array.

[Wody]

I have lots of different drives too, but some the same models. But, I did make sure they are from different batches/countries, so that's safe too. Mostly same models fail, when they are from the same batch, often bought at the same time in bigger amounts (like when people buy 2 or more of the same drive)

[vca]

I once bought a WD 2TB drive, it failed during pre-clear, so I took it back to the dealer, got another as replacement and it failed in preclear, got another replacement and it passed the preclear...  so, yes, multiple dead from one batch.

 

Regards,

 

Stephen

 

[JonathanM]

I once bought a WD 2TB drive, it failed during pre-clear, so I took it back to the dealer, got another as replacement and it failed in preclear, got another replacement and it passed the preclear...  so, yes, multiple dead from one batch.

 

Regards,

 

Stephen

More likely the shipping box got drop kicked by fedups somewhere in transit. You should see some of the craptastic packing some big distributors do when they think they can get away with it.