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Yev from Backblaze here -> Not necessarily, it just means that if we had a set of those drives and replaced them multiple times over a given period, that number
by atYevP 11y ago
Yev from Backblaze here -> Not necessarily, it just means that if we had a set of those drives and replaced them multiple times over a given period, that number can be quite high. We're comparing the drives that failed against the number we have spinning, not the total we've had in service.
- Rexxar 11y agoThanks for explanation. (I would have preferred a definition "failures / number of disk bought", but, in practice, the result is probably very similar for all other models)