Take the tour ×  I've always heard that you should not purchase
hard disks with sequential serial numbers for any storage
system. Now I find myself, for the first time, in a position
where I need to purchase around sixteen drives and there seems
to be no way to buy this many hard disks and guarantee they
weren't all from the same day of manufacturing.  How do I do
this? Explain why I'm being overly paranoid.  share|improve this
question Great question. –  Wesley Feb 2 '10 at 23:52 add
comment  4 Answers  up vote 12 down vote accepted  I'm going to
disagree with joeqwerty here, because I had a similar issue.
Check out my experience here, and see the accepted answer. 3/5
of my disks, all purchased in the same transaction, all failed
within 24 hours of eachother.  Although I think my experiences
were fairly extreme, the real problem happens later on in the
life of the device, when all the drives the same age will start
to fail in a similar timeframe, so your line of thinking is spot
on, but might prove to be mor