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		g413n 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard dr... we don't have perfect metrics here but this seems to match our experience; a lot of failures happened shortly after install before the bulk of the data download onto the heap, so actual data loss is lower than hardware failure rates

frakkingcylons 3 months ago [–]

Where did you source them? I've thought about buying HDDs from a vendor like serverpartdeals.com but was unsure how reliable the drives would be.

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