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Most of your comments are about disks. If you read the fine print, when you order a new server, you don't get brand new disks, but used ones. When they die, you
by etatoby 8y ago
Most of your comments are about disks. If you read the fine print, when you order a new server, you don't get brand new disks, but used ones. When they die, you don't get new disks, unless you pay a premium, but used ones. They recycle the same broken hardware until it's untenable, and then some more.
- chappi42 8y agoDidn't know this. Recycling is good for ecology. At work we have some Hetzner servers. About two times a disk broke; with RAID it was not a problem, a hassle, at least the first time, it was, yes.
- gist 8y ago> Recycling is good for ecology Looking at the recycling issue I wonder if you are using so many disks (that fail) if it is possible to ship them to a low wage (sorry) country have them taken apart and rebuilt using parts from other disks where different parts failed?
- 51lver 8y agoIt's possible to combine the parts from a disk with failed bearings and a disk with a failed controller to end up with one working disk, but it's not worth the effort unless your goal is data recovery.
- gist 8y agoHah why I said 'low cost country'.
- zaarn 8y agoSome vendors do that (look at recertified disks) but the failure rates aren't great.
- Nux 8y agoAll the dedicated server providers reuse components, it's normal practice. As long as the health of the HDD is 100% with no bad sectors there's no reason not to reuse it. When you get your new hetzner server check it with smartctl, hdsentinel etc, if any show bad sectors or health other than 100% I am sure they'll be happy to replace it for you.