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I would bet they just used SSDs and made sure that the workload they were giving these servers wouldn’t tend to hit the rewrite limit over that time period. (E

I would bet they just used SSDs and made sure that the workload they were giving these servers wouldn’t tend to hit the rewrite limit over that time period. (Even then, I’d bet the expected writes-per-time was the source of the “five year” figure.)

jandrese 6y ago
Probably a decent number of warm spares in the mix as well.
- 24gttghh 6y ago
  Yeah. I can't see just using the MTBF for the drives and not having any spares. Shit happens.