Don't get disk with serial nr in sequence

[Icekimo]

My 2 disks (of 4 disks) on raid 5 crashed in one night.
If possible get from different manufactores.

[aftermath]

know what u mean but i had a few ibm die over about a year. i had 2 wd and 2 ibm now just use 4 wd

[dartor]

I've heard this before. Usually recommended if you run RAID arrays or other large harddrive pools.

If you were to get drives from the same batch(say 1 and 2), if there is a flaw in one there is likely to be flaws in the other.

You just take your chances. The joys of technology.:(

[Rav]

Thats scary, and good advice. I was planning to build a 4-disk RAID5 with Maxtor drives in the near future, and would have probably bought them all at once. Thanks for the info.

-Rav