![]() because you can buy twice as many, which opens up lots of options for increased levels of redundancy.īackblaze and many other operations are only feasible because they are able to control costs. Yes, that's great, but you seem to be failing to grasp that for the same budget, the consumer drives are more reliable. Quite frankly, there's nothing about that report that's overly shocking to me. ![]() Of the 2 that got too hot one was just barely in warranty(2.9 year mark) and one was out of warranty (3.4ish mark). I've had 3 drives out of 24 fail(all are at the 3 year or 3.7-ish mark) and I've had 1 disk that just up and died(at about the 2.9 year mark) and 2 that I allowed to get too hot(whoops). Not sure why that's the case, or if there are situations where 24/7 uptime is "bad". Personal experience(as well as that observed by others) has show that leaving them up 24/7 seems to extend their life. The only thing I really disagree with is the comment that 24/7 uptime will lead to higher failure rates. It's easy to extrapolate that data if you check out the Google paper. I pointed this out last year sometime when there was a long discussion over the Google White Paper on Failure Trends. ![]() They pocket the money and say "thanks sucker." and you got a piece of mind that you can RMA the drive if need be. It's extra profit margin for them to convince you to buy those "premium drives" as you have only a small chance of having a failure between the 1 and 3 year mark. Sound familiar at all? They knew exactly what they were doing. Now they are 1 year with the "premium" drives being 3 years. If you remember warranties used to be for 5 years, then suddenly they were 3 years. Not surprisingly, the hard drive manufacturers first figured this out years ago(circal 2009?). Anyway, if you read that google paper and basically chart out all of their data, you'll see failure rates increase in 3 steps one at 0-1year, one at 1-3year, and one at 3+ years.
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