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If Steven Levy's "In the Plex" reflects current reality, Google buys very cheap failure-prone HDDs and builds in a lot of redundancy: "Google's first CIO, Dougl
by Umalu 15y ago
If Steven Levy's "In the Plex" reflects current reality, Google buys very cheap failure-prone HDDs and builds in a lot of redundancy: "Google's first CIO, Douglas Merrill, once noted that the disk drives Google purchased were 'poorer quality than what you would put into your kid's computer at home.'" [page 183]
- razzmataz 15y agoI seem to remember a paper discussing failure rates, and that there wasn't a large statistical difference between the 'poorer quality' hard drives and the higher end stuff.