Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:23:17 -0500 From: "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com> To: "'Alex Zbyslaw'" <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>, "'Steve Camp'" <steve@camp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: favorite ATA/SATA hard disk brand? Message-ID: <20060323132320.2F56643D60@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <44228C98.8080006@dial.pipex.com>
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> If I were going to run RAID-1, I would pick two disks of the=20 > same size but different brands (Samsung and Hitachi 250Gb=20 > say). If you buy two disks of the same brand at the same=20 > time from the same supplier, it always seems to me that you=20 > increase the chance that a) they come from the same batch b)=20 > therefore if one has some production-line-related fault, the=20 > other is more likely to have the same fault. >=20 > --Alex >=20 Actually, this is an excellent advise for the fact mentioned above, and = as well some RAID-1 controllers actually malfunction when one of the two = identical disks goes bad. So you'll have to physically disconnect the = bad disk from the card. This happened to me on a Promise Controller. = You'll even see a notice about it in the new Promise controllers User = Guide ! Tamouh
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