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They buy enough drives that there's another point of data that's needed for them. Availability of the disks. If they need to expand a few 10s of petabytes the
by simcop2387 8y ago
They buy enough drives that there's another point of data that's needed for them. Availability of the disks. If they need to expand a few 10s of petabytes they may only be able to get enough disks from one group regardless of reliability concerns.
- VectorLock 8y agoThats what surprised me when I learned that they were "shucking" drives from off the shelf external drives at some point.