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I find the problem with lack of serial number on the side of the hard drive to be a little silly. How hard would it be to get someone in your firm to simply pla

• dspillett 11y ago
  > It wouldn't take more then 10-20 minutes with a label maker. That does introduce a human error based point of failure though - a few from a batch could have their labels mixed up. Given how blackblaze's setup is described someone powering off the wrong drive or entire node by mistake due to a misidentified non-failed drive will not affect service at all, the built-in resilience to hardware failure will easily cover this, but there will still be some impact if only in the wasted man-time (for the original error and any resulting investigation & relabelling effort) and any light performance degradation as the affected node is brought back into service. So for the number of drives they use, perhaps the manufacturers labelling the drives in a consistent manner is valuable enough to complain about not being the case.