On 03/18/11 21:00, Mehma Sarja wrote:
> I can only think of staggering drive age and maintenance. Here's hoping 
> that someone on the list can come up with more creative solutions/practices.

Try to avoid buying a large number of drives from the same batch.  This
is frequently easily accomplished by spreading purchases across several
vendors.  Four drives here, four there...


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