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		g413n 71 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard dr... we don't have perfect metrics here but this seems to match our experience; a lot of failures happened shortly after install before the bulk of the data download onto the heap, so actual data loss is lower than hardware failure rates

frakkingcylons 71 days ago [–]

Where did you source them? I've thought about buying HDDs from a vendor like serverpartdeals.com but was unsure how reliable the drives would be.

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