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by toast0 1842 days ago
> I do make an effort to source them from as many different batches as possible, though

If you can, also stagger the initial power ons. There's a history of disk firmware bugs that are triggered by runtime; if it makes sense, you want to have enough of a difference in power on time to do a lossless replacement on your first disk before your second disk hits the magic number of time on.

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Indeed.

Synology, which I’ve been using for the last 10 years or so when the project cannot afford NetApp/EMC class storage, does this out of the box. (I’m sure netapp and EMC do too, but it’s not my problem when the disks inside them fail)