By Philip Churchill on September 11th, 2010
Ordering Two of the Same Hard Drives from the Same Vendor
Seeber Consulting of Arizona have a good piece of advice for hard drives in Home Server after two of their drives decided it was time to go to harddrive heaven:
Sometimes it isn’t the best thing to order 2 of the same hard drives from the same vendor… cause if there is a flaw in the drives, and they are in the same batch, it may affect BOTH drives… which is exactly what happened in this case! Purchased in 2007 with a 5 year warranty they had failed less than 4 years later within 30 days of each other!
You can read their full story here.
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What can one say? Stagger your purchases or should you get two at one time that are the same size and same manufacturer then use them in different machines.