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		dylan604 on Oct 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Redditor acquires decommissioned Netflix cache ser... >or 50TB hard drives becomes available for a bargain. Maybe my old age is showing, but this just frightens me to no end. 1 50TB failure, and you've lost 50TB. Build an array of smaller drives to get to 50TB, and much less catastrophe if 1 drive dies.

NicoJuicy on Oct 28, 2022 [–]

Maintenance costs money too. What if you have to replace 3 times more often because of the smaller drives?

dylan604 on Oct 29, 2022 | [–]

if it costs some $ to be able to recover is still better than not being able to recover at all because the single point of failure fails

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