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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018 by loeg on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:08PM (#18970589)
Especially if you're an individual person with a non-raid6 / hot spare system, you might pay a premium for a lower failure rate (standalone drive, RAID1, or RAID5, for example).
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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018 by walrus01 on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @01:15PM (#18970662)
Although in the year 2019 it would be pretty reckless to use RAID5 without hotspare. Or even RAID5 with hotspare. This has been true for a long, long time:

https://www.google.com/search?&q=why+raid5+stops+working&ie=...

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018 by loeg on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @06:45PM (#18974062)
I'm certainly not advocating for it.
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