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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by timc3 on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @12:40AM (#39450519)
What I used to do was swap machines over from the one with failing disks to a live spare (slave in the old frowned upon terminology), do the maintenance and then replicate from the now live spare back if I had confidence it was all good.

Yes it’s costly having the hardware to do that as it mostly meant multiple machines as I always wanted to be able to rebuild one whilst having at least two machines online.

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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by dijit on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @02:06AM (#39450939)
If you are doing this with your own hardware it is still less costly than cloud even if it mostly sits idle.

Cloud is approx 5x sticker cost for compute if its sustained.

Your discounts may vary, rue the day those discounts are taken away because we are all sufficiently locked in.

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