• Toribor@corndog.social
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    6 months ago

    You’re assuming that the failure rate for drives are all the same though. Aren’t the failure rates for new high capacity drives typically higher?

    • meteokr@community.adiquaints.moe
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      6 months ago

      Yes their failure rates are usually a bit higher, but usually less than the increase in rate from using more than one disk instead. A bit of math can be done using Backblaze’s disk failure rate data to get a reasonable approximation of the overall risk of failure.