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True - but presumably they've been spinning and doing seeks pretty much 24/7. It's not like backblaze/coldline where the drives are practically powered down mos
by michaelt 4y ago
True - but presumably they've been spinning and doing seeks pretty much 24/7. It's not like backblaze/coldline where the drives are practically powered down most of the time.
And of course, 36x the drives means 36x the drive failures - and even if you avoid losing data, you've still got the chore of swapping each failed drive.
- dijit 4y agoConstantly spinning is better for the motor than starting and stopping.
- Maursault 4y ago> And of course, 36x the drives means 36x the drive failures I think you must mean 36x the chance of drive failure. Drive failure probability per year is published at around 1% though practically as high as 10%. 36 drives means there's somewhere between a 30.35% (1 - 0.99^36) and 97.7% (1 - 0.9^36) chance per year of a single drive failing.