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by DanWaterworth 3879 days ago
Sure, that would make sense if they only had personnel in the datacenter once a month, but: "we replace about 10 drives every day" [1].

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...
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DanWaterworth 3879 days ago
To clarify, I'm not saying that they wouldn't be better off with an SSD boot drive. I'm arguing that having an HDD boot drive, given their setup, isn't awful.
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