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> high reliability through redundancy ... easy physical maintenance through hot-swappable components I don't think hyperscalers will ever care about this. They
by electroly 5y ago
> high reliability through redundancy ... easy physical maintenance through hot-swappable components
I don't think hyperscalers will ever care about this. They have millions of servers. They can just take the whole server out of commission as soon as it fails a health check. This is a critical difference between the mainframe model and the modern cloud model.
- kristjansson 5y agoYup - look at the sleds in the opencompute project, or the rack product Oxide is working on. Whole servers swap about as easily as hot-swap SATA trays