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Are these the ones that appear as two volumes? These have double the risk of failure, so you really have to run them in RAID1, halving the IOPS and storage. You get no benefit aside from lower power consumption and denser RAID boxes, but have to be careful because RAID on two volumes in the same shell is risky so you should RAID across shells.



Do they really have double the risk of failure as a combined unit? I'm not sure I see the actuators fail very often in HDDs.




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