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At the scale that Yahoo runs, 1TB is considerably cheaper than $67/TB. Remember that places like Yahoo and Google operate at levels where a file service issues

At the scale that Yahoo runs, 1TB is considerably cheaper than $67/TB. Remember that places like Yahoo and Google operate at levels where a file service issues a monitoring warning if there's less than a petabyte left.

film42 13y ago
True, but aren't they 'supposed' to buy high grade HDDs for datacenter usage?
- varjag 13y ago
  On really large scale there's little point: disks will fail anyway all the time. It's mostly whether your maintenance plan can keep up with replacement rate.