Hard drive reliability at scale (Changelog Interviews #537)
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The Cost of SSDs
The speed is what most people would think they would be getting, but it's not the drive where any slowness happens. We want to provide a solid, good, well-performing service at an economical price. SSDs don't fit into that as data servers at this point. They're just too expensive. But I can see a day when we're using something besides hard drives to store customer data. It will do it in a way that's economical and practical.
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