Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate
SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 2 days agoYeah. In the Backblaze data, you can see that annualized failure rates vary significantly by drive model within the same manufacturer.
But if maintaining drive diversity isn’t your thing, just buy a cold spare and swap it out when a failure inevitably happens (and then replace the spare).
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
The problem with same batch drives is failing together, potentially beyond your ability to recover with replacement drives.