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Has blackblaze budgeted for the cliff failure rate that is coming?
by ffrryuu 13y ago
Has blackblaze budgeted for the cliff failure rate that is coming?
- crpatino 13y agoBased on the linear extrapolation they make over the third year failure data into the future (to calculate an estimated half life of roughly 6 years), I would say they probably have not. A little statistics is a dangerous thing.
- atYevP 13y agoYev from Backblaze | Somewhat. Luckily, not all the drives fail at the same time. If a drive fails in one pod we replace it, so even if there is a large fall-off after 5-6 years, it won't be like we are losing a majority of our farm in one fell swoop. We buy our gear as we need it and have lots of drives to spare, so unless all drives automatically shut off after 6 years (which they don't) we should be OK ;-)