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does that mean that they run hardware as long as it lasts? and in this case made sense to proactively move to "denser" storage?

• pstrateman 2y ago
  the server to support the hard drives is quite a large part of the total cost, so replacing drives is probably an economical solution to increasing storage
  • tracker1 2y ago
    Was going to say the same... A relatively modest server in the past 5 years can handle a few dozen SATA drives without issue. Going from 8tb drives to 16tb doubles capacity. IIRC they tend to cycle out drives around the 5 year mark.
    • banish-m4 2y ago
      I'm wondering if they've experimented with higher endurance lifecycles risking larger % of failures relying on redundancy and replication to migrate data, or encountered increased OpEx costs.