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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020 by bdd on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @02:51PM (#24841007)
Publishing SSD reliability of datacenter setups would yield no useful information for everyday consumers. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24840914. Neither load nor the operating environment of such reports will be anything remotely similar to everyday consumers' use and environments.

In 2015 Facebook published* its study of flash memory failures at scale. By all means it's a terrific paper (of course I'm biased) but I think it was irrelevant not only for consumers but pretty much 99% of the flash users in the industry.

[*] http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/pub/flash-memory-failures-i...

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020 by csnover on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:19PM (#24841321)
Sorry, I was not clear. When I said company disk fleets, I was thinking of places like corporate head offices which have thousands of workstations, not datacentres.
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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020 by greedo on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @06:07PM (#24842818)
Lol, that's assuming your workstations are deployed with SSDs. My company thinks they're a waste of money for the plebes.
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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020 by bdd on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:03PM (#24841807)
Ah. That'd actually be useful I think.
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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020 by ksec on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @12:45AM (#24844804)
Well I am under the impression most DC would be operating in ideal condition compare to consumer usage. So it does provide some useful numbers in the grand overview.
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