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The last I heard, I understood that Backblaze doesn't go around replacing single drives that fail in a pod, rather, their software marks that drive bad and only
by ensignavenger 9y ago
The last I heard, I understood that Backblaze doesn't go around replacing single drives that fail in a pod, rather, their software marks that drive bad and only once a certain percentage of the capacity of the entire pod is gone, do they yank it our and rebuild the pod. That probably helps a lot versus an environment where had to have technicians replacing single drive failures randomly throughout your data center.
- notatoad 9y agothey operate at datacenter scale: https://xkcd.com/1737/ https://xkcd.com/1737/