Take the 2-minute tour ×  This morning, listening to Stack
Overflow podcast #35 *, talking about Server, RAID controllers
and Hard Drives, I heard this thing:  if you are going to buy
Hard drives for your server, you would probably want to
differentiate manufacturers because, buying them from the same
productor, raise the level of risk that if one fails, the second
have higher probability to die (for some sort of "faulty parts"
affinity)  What do you think about that? Is that a common
practise from your experience?  *sorry but that part is missing
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Answers  up vote 3 down vote accepted  Well it's a balance,
certainly there are very real scenarios from the past 20-30
years where there have been issues with a whole model, line or
batch of disks that has meant one disk's failure was likely to
be followed by another within quite short time scales and this
should be a worry (especially in R5 configurations). At the same
time if you're buying from one of the