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That all three drives lasted this long then failed within a month is very suspect. This sounds less like random failure indicative of the quality of refurbished drives in general, and more like a defect common to all three drives.

Because of such plagues, data-centre operators often mix drives of different manufacturers, models, batches and ages. Running heterogeneous devices in a redundant array helps makes the failure distribution more random so that the safety margin is less likely to be suddenly overwhelmed by correlated failures.




Makes sense to mix drives. I do this with my personal NAS (~24 drives) and has worked out nicely even at such a small scale.




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