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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by XorNot on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:10AM (#33651791)
On a modest Hadoop cluster of 300 machines with 20 disks a piece, we replaced 3 hard disks a week.
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by dilyevsky on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:59PM (#33661175)
Spindles? That sounds like a ridiculous amount burn rate - it should be no more than 5-10% a YEAR. Backblaze reports only 1.6% quarterly failure rate https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html
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Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and... by dilyevsky on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:32PM (#33664469)
Er actually missed its total 6k disks seems about right then
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