[Duckpaddle2]

Very interesting to see what hard drives they "blessed".

[nacs]

The hard drives used are listed here: https://www.netflix.com/openconnect/hardware

  Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 3TB
  Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB

[ihsw]

> The following system was developed and first deployed at the end of 2011.

This is very out of date. Their latest OpenConnect appliances use SSD drives, have higher capacity, and use less power. They're heavier, too.

[Alupis]

Google uses standard off-the-shelf sata drives too.

Too many disk failures to be worth spending money on the expensive "enterprise" drives when a standard SATA drive will due the job just fine (especially in arrays like this -- plenty of spindles to get performance)

[danudey]

Backblaze also uses off-the-shelf HDDs (including, when HDDs were in short supply after the flood in Thailand, buying USB drives and tearing the case off). They publish a lot of reliability numbers on drives as well (which match up quite well with my own experiences), as well as cost/GB numbers.

[Alupis]

I remember that! I think "This Developer's Life" or a similar podcast interviewed them about trying to game the walmart hdd rationing (2 per customer) and stuff.