Re:Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers
by etatoby on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @01:33PM
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Most of your comments are about disks. If you read the fine print, when you order a new server, you don't get brand new disks, but used ones. When they die, you don't get new disks, unless you pay a premium, but used ones. They recycle the same broken hardware until it's untenable, and then some more.
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Re:Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers
by Nux on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @05:20PM
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All the dedicated server providers reuse components, it's normal practice.
As long as the health of the HDD is 100% with no bad sectors there's no reason not to reuse it.
When you get your new hetzner server check it with smartctl, hdsentinel etc, if any show bad sectors or health other than 100% I am sure they'll be happy to replace it for you.
Re:Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers
by chappi42 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:22PM
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Didn't know this. Recycling is good for ecology.
At work we have some Hetzner servers. About two times a disk broke; with RAID it was not a problem, a hassle, at least the first time, it was, yes.
Re:Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers
by gist on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @03:38PM
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> Recycling is good for ecology
Looking at the recycling issue I wonder if you are using so many disks (that fail) if it is possible to ship them to a low wage (sorry) country have them taken apart and rebuilt using parts from other disks where different parts failed?
Re:Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers
by 51lver on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @07:00PM
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It's possible to combine the parts from a disk with failed bearings and a disk with a failed controller to end up with one working disk, but it's not worth the effort unless your goal is data recovery.