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Also, there are only 3 hard drive manufacturers left. If one of them have a bug that affects across their product line, that can take out 1/3 of all hard drives
by httpz 8y ago
Also, there are only 3 hard drive manufacturers left. If one of them have a bug that affects across their product line, that can take out 1/3 of all hard drives.
- kolpa 8y agoIt's vanishingly unlikely that a bug would affect all their drives (across all recent models, and only after burn-in) simultaneously, unless the drives are managed by a remote server with a SPOF.
- hinkley 8y agoWe're talking about 6+ 9's here. Putting an order of magnitude on your definition of 'vanishingly small' seems compulsory when we're already so far right of the decimal point. How many years between incidents are you talking, and when was the last time a manufacturer had a multigenerational bug? (and is quality improving, or decreasing? That is, are we more or less likely to see failures in the next 10 years than we did in the last 10?)
- voidmain 8y agoThe Crucial M4 SSD had a firmware bug [1] that caused it to fail repeatedly starting after 5,184 power on hours. Disk failures could also be triggered by datacenter environmental factors shared among many drives like temperature or noise. [1] https://www.storagereview.com/node/2676 https://www.storagereview.com/node/2676
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- sitkack 8y agoYou never experienced Death Star.