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by sennight 1592 days ago
This is what lot numbers are for, the tracking (and in this case: leveraging) of variability between production runs. Spread multiple lots over more than one storage array and you're good to go.
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Multiple lot numbers won't save you from firmware bugs.
Neither will brand diversification, where they can not only independently implement their own vision of what a data eating binary blob should look like - they can also converge onto a single controller source. Wanna run down that potential failure mode on a dozen different drives, or just one?