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Some of the big cloud providers (Google and I think Facebook) do exactly this in their DC's, when hardware dies they just leave it dead until enough has failed
by noir_lord 10y ago
Some of the big cloud providers (Google and I think Facebook) do exactly this in their DC's, when hardware dies they just leave it dead until enough has failed in that rack to make it worth swapping out the whole thing.
When you have a 100,000 of anything electrical MTBF will hit you every day.
- lostlogin 10y agoI'm guessing that someone has done an equation and shown that to be cost effective. Does that calculation apply when the cost of building the data centre and running it are considerably higher due to the location you built in?