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Dropbox Extending Magic Pocket with SMR Drive Deployment (blogs.dropbox.com)
17 points by thebootstrapper 2934 days ago
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I for one am pleased at the move away from RAID controllers here. This (I hope) sets a precedent calling out the vendor lock-in bullshit and performance FUD surrounding their use.

It is also a curiosity they're using Rust in place of Go for some of their stuff in this system.