<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Jim Popovitch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jimpop@gmail.com">jimpop@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Aren't identical drives subject to similar failures?<br>
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-Jim P.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>In a previous life working at a large datacenter that does major search engine and other cloud activities, it was quite common to install a total crapton of same batch, sequential serial numbered drives into multiple systems as a large-scale batch upgrade process. I don't recall the failure rate after such an install as being horrendous as related to bad drives or drives that failed shortly after installation. But it was certainly noticeable. Something around 3-5% within 30 days would have seemed high. <br>
<br>But those upgraded drives were not really "consumer grade". I have had multiple failure of identical consumer grade drives such that I buy different brands for all new machines now.<br><br>if "once bitten, twice shy" does that mean "thrice bitten, 8 times shy"? 2x vs. 2^x<br>
</div></div>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br>Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness <br><br>