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Re:Building a 30 PB storage cluster in the heart of SF by g413n on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @01:23PM (#45440401)
we don't have perfect metrics here but this seems to match our experience; a lot of failures happened shortly after install before the bulk of the data download onto the heap, so actual data loss is lower than hardware failure rates
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Re:Building a 30 PB storage cluster in the heart of SF by frakkingcylons on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @06:52PM (#45444572)
Where did you source them? I've thought about buying HDDs from a vendor like serverpartdeals.com but was unsure how reliable the drives would be.
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