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Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022 by GTP on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:12AM (#34597003)
So far I always assumed that, when talking about HDDs failing rates, they where considering the typical mechanical failure. I never considered that they could declare a failure due to some corrupted data, although it would be reasonable for a datacenter to do so.
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Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022 by tke248 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:24AM (#34597206)
Mechanical failures were more prevalent in my experience in 90s, most of the recent stuff is usually see are controller failures. I rarely hear any head crash clicking like the old days
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