Josh Carroll wrote: > I've got 2 WD black drives on order to replace these two ST31000340AS, > and originally my intention was to use them for separate filesystems, > but I think I'll gmirror them now, to be safe(er). Some people recommend to use different vendors for the components of disk mirrors, in order to reduce the likelihood that both drives will fail at about the same time due to a firmware bug or similar. That advice seems to be particularly valuable given the current firmware problems that particular Seagate disks are exhibiting. For example, I've got these in a server: # atacontrol list | grep ad Master: ad0 <SAMSUNG HD160JJ/WU100-41> Serial ATA II Master: ad1 <ST3160811AS/3.AAE> Serial ATA v1.0 # diskinfo ad0 ad1 ad0 512 160041885696 312581808 310101 16 63 ad1 512 160041885696 312581808 310101 16 63 # gmirror status Name Status Components mirror/gm0 COMPLETE ad0 ad1 Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "anyone new to programming should be kept as far from C++ as possible; actually showing the stuff should be considered a criminal offence" -- Jacek GenerowiczReceived on Tue Jan 20 2009 - 17:29:16 UTC
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