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>We manage several storage servers which see intensive usage, and usually at around 5 years we start to see disk failures. Which begs the question of how old t
by Hamuko 4y ago
>We manage several storage servers which see intensive usage, and usually at around 5 years we start to see disk failures.
Which begs the question of how old the drives actually are. If intensive usage would result in lots of disk failures after 5 years, then a 9-year-old server would surely have a bunch of new(er) disks inside it? Or do they just reduce the amount of cache space they have with every failure?
- js2 4y agoThe latter. The case design clearly doesn’t lend itself to replacing drives. https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/ydollm/so_i_got_a_netflix_cache_server/ittpppw/ https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/ydollm/so_i_got_a_...
- gjulianm 4y agoOf course, the timing depends on the usage pattern. In our case we write a lot to the disks, which means they fail faster. Time to failure also depends on manufacturer, batch, server conditions... But in general I wouldn't trust too much that have been continuously running under a significant load (I don't think a Netflix cache server had a lot of idle time) for so many years.