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Re:Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers by chappi42 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:22PM (#18124272)
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.

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Re:Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers by gist on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @03:38PM (#18124999)
> 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?

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Re:Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers by 51lver on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @07:00PM (#18126426)
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.
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Re:Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers by gist on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @03:02PM (#18133649)
Hah why I said 'low cost country'.
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Re:Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers by zaarn on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @04:20AM (#18128460)
Some vendors do that (look at recertified disks) but the failure rates aren't great.
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