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Hard drive reliability at scale (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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How to Operate a New Drive in Service

How do you operate when you add new drives to the system? That's a really good question. I was at the Seagate facility in Longmont, Colorado, where they do their prototyping for all of the drive builds and so on and so forth. And one of the things that they do is put them in a testing box and they run that test, some tests on it for a few hours, days, whatever their period of time is. When we replace a single drive, we don't burn it in, if you will. They put it in and it obviously has to run through a series of F6 and so on in order to even, you know, did it come

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