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Hard drive reliability at scale (Interview)
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
How to Buy Hard Drives
Arno: So we touched on a little bit, but give me a deeper detail. Like how do you choose which manufacturers it seems based on your data? Do you have to go to distributors? How much of a lift is it free to buy drives? And when you do buy them, I'm assuming it's once a quarter because you're tracking failures at once a quarter. Arno: It's actually a very variable process. You almost never buy directly from the manufacturer. We always buy through one. Now maybe Google or somebody like that goes and can change that. But companies of our size, we've always bought through a distributor. That's where the contract is with and so
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