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Is Google’s us-east-1 unreliable? Would you mind to share any details?
by alexkon 9y ago
Is Google’s us-east-1 unreliable? Would you mind to share any details?
- jvolkman 9y agous-east-1 is AWS.
- pharrlax 9y agoEmployee of an AWS customer here hosted primarily on us-east-1. We've had a box get water damage after a big storm. Also, I once met someone who works at the datacenter. He said it's crazy hot inside. They apparently only cool the building the bare minimum required to keep the servers functional. Very Amazon.
- koolba 9y agoI recall reading a google study that disks last longer and are more stable running hotter than usual.
- l1n 9y ago"After looking at data on over 34,000 drives, I found that overall there is no correlation between temperature and failure rate." From BackBlaze: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-temperature-does-it-matter/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-temperature-does-i...
- user5994461 9y agoReading the same study, I recall that higher temperate cause slightly more premature deaths (< 6 months), it makes no difference afterwards.
- brianwawok 9y agoWhy would you spend millions of dollars over cooling a DC? Computers don't have feelings.