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Hard drive reliability at scale (Changelog Interviews #537)

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How to Choose the Right Drives for Your Data Center

HGST has a 1% to 1.9% annual failure rate for its drives, according to the company's data sheets. That number is based on calculations of mean time between failures and so on. HGST doesn't need the latest and greatest drives because why would I overpay for them? So we're going to use drives that are somewhat down the price curve and have a proven capability in the market already.

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