[stephengillie]

Do other manufacturers produce this size of drive? It's difficult to source from 3 vendors if there's only one making the product.

[thfuran]

Get one from amazon, one from newegg, one from the manufacturer directly or some such.

[lostapathy]

I try to buy hot spare or the last drive in a raid6 later than the rest of the array to try to spread them out too.