TonyToews
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I have five consumer grade SATA hard drives in my FreeNAS system. With ZFS that means I can lose two hard drives and it will still function without loss of data. I purchased my hard drives from different manufacturers and vendors to help ensure I didn't have any similar models or production batches that might fail in the same way at the same time.
A hard drive failed. I replaced it and, five hours into the thirty hour resilvering process, another hard drive failed. Needless to say I was quite nervous until the resilvering completed. My second replacement hard drive should be here tomorrow.
I post this because this is first hand experience of a highly unusual set of coincidences. It's worth it spending the extra money for that second "spare" hard drive.
A hard drive failed. I replaced it and, five hours into the thirty hour resilvering process, another hard drive failed. Needless to say I was quite nervous until the resilvering completed. My second replacement hard drive should be here tomorrow.
I post this because this is first hand experience of a highly unusual set of coincidences. It's worth it spending the extra money for that second "spare" hard drive.