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ryan_harg@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months agom currently failing drive is a WD as well… 🥴
Comment on What are good harddrives to use with serves
ryan_harg@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months agom currently failing drive is a WD as well… 🥴
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Switching wholesale from a brand or model to another could be counterproductive. There are myriad of reasons why drives can fail that aren’t related to the brand and the model. What if you unknowingly switch to a less reliable model because of such a reason? You’d end up worse off. For example according to Backblaze’s data, Seagate is generally worse than WD.
A better way to do this is to mix brands and models so that there’s less probability to fail at the same time. I have both WD and Seagate in a single storage pool, even if the Seagate model is objectively less reliable according to Backblaze.