Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to external SSD)

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Subject	Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to external SSD)
Date	2021-08-03 21:20 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 01:11:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:

[...]

Nice line up.

> I wonder what kind of drives are used nowadays in big datacenters (and
> whether the prices they pay for them looks anything like the ones
> above).

One cloud storage provider, Backblaze, regularly publishes reports on
harddisk reliability (they obviously have a lot of data on that :-)

AFAICR, they make a point on using "consumer" hardware.

Here [1] is their 2020 report, for the pathologically curious :)

(Note: I neither work for them nor am I their customer),

Cheers

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/

 - t

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ISO to external SSD Gunnar Gervin <dofeelok@gmail.com> - 2021-08-02 21:40 +0200
  Re: ISO to external SSD Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-08-02 21:50 +0200
    Re: ISO to external SSD Gunnar Gervin <dofeelok@gmail.com> - 2021-08-03 14:20 +0200
      Re: ISO to external SSD Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-08-03 17:10 +0200
        Re: ISO to external SSD Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-08-03 17:20 +0200
          Re: ISO to external SSD Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-08-03 17:30 +0200
            [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to  external SSD) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-08-03 19:40 +0200
              Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to  external SSD) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-08-03 20:00 +0200
              Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to          external SSD) Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2021-08-03 21:00 +0200
              Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to  external SSD) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-03 21:20 +0200
                Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-08-03 23:30 +0200
          Re: ISO to external SSD Gunnar Gervin <dofeelok@gmail.com> - 2021-08-03 18:30 +0200
      Re: ISO to external SSD Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-03 17:20 +0200
  Re: ISO to external SSD Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-02 23:40 +0200

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