Comment on btrfs drive replacement
mal3oon@lemmy.world 3 months agoif you buy two identical drives (at the same time), the likelyhood of both drives failing around the same time is severely higher.
I need sources, this sounds extremely unlikely. That’s basically 2 "independent” probabilities.
tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 3 months ago
The reasoning is that drives are produced and shipped in batches and if you order multiple at onces there is a higher chance you’ll get drives from the same batch. If that batch had some fault during production or it was damaged during shipping, all your drives might be affected.
I don’t have a source, but it’s something a lot of expirenced people have mentioned to me.