Re: question about the best suited RAID level/layout

Hi Brad.

On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 09:07 +0800, Brad Campbell wrote:

Both have had great reliability, so that's not really a good 
data point for you.

Well but it's not a bad point either, is it?
And when we remember back at the issues (IIRC) Seagate had with the
firmwares of some of it's devices, that suddenly stopped working at some
special date... than it could easily happen you're screwed with having
all disks from one vendor i.e. with the same type.

I vaguely remember that back then there were even cases where firmware
updates didn't help anymore... but I may be wrong on that.

What I *have* found over the years is the importance of weeding out 
early failures.

Sure... I ran some 4 passes of badblock scans... well that may not be as
intensive as your several-weeks-test,... but 80 hours of constant
reading/writing is at least something.


Thanks,
Chris.