[s-cars] NAC- need advice on photo workstation, RAID and some other ???s

[Theodore Chen]

joe has a point, but i don't think you need to go that far.  i think
it's fine to get drives from different batches.  the purpose of getting
different drives is to minimize the risk of a double drive failure.  but
that really applies to large disk arrays.  how many drives are you going
to have in the array?  four.

being the cheapskate that i am, i'd probably just buy whatever i could 
find a good deal on.  seagate bought maxtor and is phasing out the 
maxtor drives, so there are probably going to be sales on those drives.

check fatwallet.com - people are posting about 300 GB drives for $80 shipped.
http://www.fatwallet.com/t/18/620415

as long as you respond quickly to a drive failure, you're not likely to
have a double failure.  it's not like you're going to be responsible for 
a bunch of different systems and have a hard time noticing that a drive
in the array is dead.

-teddy

--- Joe Pizzimenti <joe.pizzimenti at gmail.com> wrote:

> You should mix manufacturers in a RAID array, avoids similar failure rates.
> 
> Joe
> 
> On 6/13/06, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > So in a single array, you suggest mixing WD, Maxtor and Seagate?
> >
> > They all make 320s, so I could do that.
> >
> > I thought it was not a good idea to mix drives in a RAID array if
> > possible.
> >
> > I know the WD3200 models have a very good rep for reliability so far.
> >
> > Taka
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6/13/06, Joe Pizzimenti <joe.pizzimenti at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Don't forget that when buying your drives to get drives from different
> > > manufacturers.  Less of a chance of simultaneous failure.
> > >
> >
> 


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