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• devsda 2y ago
  Not sure what the take away is from their experience. Is it 1. Consumer grade/crappy SSDs are still reliable enough at scale and rarely fail that it is easier to manage occasional failures ? 2. The cost of engineering effort to keep things together with crappy ssds failing often is less compared to the expensive enterprise grade hardware ? Or is it something else ?
  • pjc50 2y ago
    Once you build a distributed system that's large, it has to tolerate routine node failures. Once you have a fault tolerant system, and some idea of failure rates, you can then ask "is it worth having X units of less reliable hardware or Y units of more reliable hardware? How many will still be running after a year?" You then find out that buying a few more cheap nodes compensates completely for the lower reliability.
    • nine_k 2y ago
      One more step, and it will conjoin with Erlang's "Let it crash" approach.
      • snailmailstare 2y ago
        This thread seems overly complex given that an engineer tasked with designing a RAID storage to replace an unplanned haberdashery would probably start with looking up what the requested acronym stands for.