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		film42 on May 21, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free spa... True, but aren't they 'supposed' to buy high grade HDDs for datacenter usage?

varjag on May 21, 2013 [–]

On really large scale there's little point: disks will fail anyway all the time. It's mostly whether your maintenance plan can keep up with replacement rate.

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