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Hard drive reliability at scale (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Protocase Storage System

We started out building those, and you're exactly right, we had a design. We sketched it out on our head. We built it out of wood. And then we went to the folks at Protocase and I don't know how we found them,. But they helped build that and build all, and they were really good at it. They really understand how to bend metal and they can produce all of the designs. Then we turned around and said, okay, well, this is great and we like it. Let's tell the world about this. That's what we did way back in 2009 now. The 45 drive guys chucked it and made some different versions of theirs

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