Hard drive reliability at scale (Changelog Interviews #537)
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SSDs: A New Player to Drive Stats
A storage pod is actually its own storage unit. It's a server. So there is a CPU in there. There's all of the other components and everything like that. And so each one has its own boot drive as well. The boot drive for us does more than just boot the system. It stores the some of the smart stats on it for a period of time. We started using those because the price point came down to the point where we wanted to pay for it. That's how I understand of backblazes, business model and thought process when they spend money.
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