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Re:Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0 by greglindahl on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:11PM (#10542101)
That's the situation I was talking about, yes. It's much cheaper to go into the datacenter once a month to replace failed data disks than to have to go in to promptly replace any system disk HDD that fails, in order to not have 60 idle disks.
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Re:Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0 by DanWaterworth on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:22PM (#10542169)
Sure, that would make sense if they only had personnel in the datacenter once a month, but: "we replace about 10 drives every day" [1].

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...

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Re:Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0 by DanWaterworth on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @02:37AM (#10545285)
To clarify, I'm not saying that they wouldn't be better off with an SSD boot drive. I'm arguing that having an HDD boot drive, given their setup, isn't awful.
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