Re:CamelCamelCamel: $44.6k disk failure, down until Feb 3
by FPGAhacker on Friday February 01, 2019 @02:27AM
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And they are probably setting themselves up for a similar fate in the future by replacing them all (failed and working alike), and at once.
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Re:CamelCamelCamel: $44.6k disk failure, down until Feb 3
by lucb1e on Friday February 01, 2019 @02:56AM
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They don't fail that reliably, unfortunately. It's not a light bulb with a certain number of hours on it. See Backblaze's drive statistics.
Edit: I just saw it's about ssds and not hdds, but while Backblaze might not have stats on those, I'm fairly sure my comment still applies. Not 100%, but I assume they account for failures due to predicable issues like write wear.
Re:CamelCamelCamel: $44.6k disk failure, down until Feb 3
by nemothekid on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:43AM
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>I'm fairly sure my comment still applies
There are other comments in this thread that go into this, but your comment doesn't apply. Another poster used the light bulb analogy well to describe SSD failures.
It's very common to see SSDs that were purchased at the same time, that were likely manufactured in the same batch, fail within hours of each other. Im' pretty sure I even read this fact on Backblaze.
Re:CamelCamelCamel: $44.6k disk failure, down until Feb 3
by raverbashing on Friday February 01, 2019 @03:29AM
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At least they should try and get from different vendors/models