>> I buy three drives at a time so I have a matching spare, because AFAIC
>> you shouldn't be doing RAID on unmatched drives.
>
> Err, yes you should :-).
>
> Unless they are spindle syncronised, the advantage of identical
> physical layout diminishes, and the disadvantage of quite possibly
> getting components from the same, (faulty), batch increases :-).
Yeah, I know, and some of my serial numbers are too close together
for comfort but I still like everything matched up:
hde: MAXTOR 4K060H3, ATA DISK drive
hdg: MAXTOR 4K060H3, ATA DISK drive
hdi: MAXTOR 4K060H3, ATA DISK drive
hde: hde1 hde2 hde3 hde4 < hde5 hde6 hde7 hde8 hde9 >
hdg: hdg1 hdg2 hdg3 hdg4 < hdg5 hdg6 hdg7 hdg8 hdg9 >
hdi: hdi1 hdi2 hdi3 hdi4 < hdi5 hdi6 hdi7 hdi8 hdi9 >
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Chuck
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