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by mnordhoff 13y ago
I would read an article about how bullet-resistant different models of car are, but I wouldn't completely change my purchasing decisions, as I avoid bullets. (Whoa, I didn't even mean to use a car analogy.)
"Consumer environments usually have crappy, unreliable power ..."
I would hope that Backblaze is on reliable, stable, data center power -- though knowing how cost-conscious they are, perhaps not -- so that's one aspect where they wouldn't be able to provide good information.
- ricardobeat 13y agoYou got it backwards. You live in Kabul, so the article on bullet resistance is completely relevant. The point is that Backblaze's deployment conditions are way more similar to a domestic user's than other enterprise deployments.
- mnordhoff 13y agoMore similar, yes, but maybe not similar enough. I wonder if it's the pathological vibration killing the Seagates. If so, you don't want to use Seagates in a file server sitting on top of your washing machine, but maybe they're fine for your living room media box. Edit: Unlike Backblaze, I have no hard numbers, and can only pull suppositions out of my ass.