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		nasalgoat on May 20, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free spa... At the scale that Yahoo runs, 1TB is considerably cheaper than $67/TB. Remember that places like Yahoo and Google operate at levels where a file service issues a monitoring warning if there's less than a petabyte left.

film42 on May 21, 2013 [–]

True, but aren't they 'supposed' to buy high grade HDDs for datacenter usage?

varjag on May 21, 2013 | [–]

On really large scale there's little point: disks will fail anyway all the time. It's mostly whether your maintenance plan can keep up with replacement rate.

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