"Soren S. Jorvang" soren@t.dk writes:
For instance, I wouldn't be surprised if parity disks had different failure patterns than data disks.
Interesting, the disks I have seen the *least* ammount of failures has been on the parity drive. Usually, any new generation of drives has some issues that need to be shaken out, so the first few months proove to have higher infant-mortality-rates for (new) drives.
YMMV.
Alex