3 articles that week
StorageNewsletter.com, Friday, May 5,2023
What if replacing a HDD was more scientific and less speculative? Given the lack of accessible data for HDD failures, the public often relies on abstract advice or conjecture to guide their actions.
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Blocks&Files, Wednesday, May 3,2023
Cloud and backup storage supplier Backblaze publishes quarterly hard disk drive failure rate statistics and has just started doing so for its SSD boot drives as well. Not much has changed in the annualized failure rates (AFR) with the latest HDD failure stats. As lifetime drive hours increase, the HDD population grows: there are 236,893 now, and an average AFR of 1.54 percent.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Tuesday, May 2,2023
SDS is a storage architecture that completely separates the hardware of a device from its software manager. It simplifies storage management by abstracting it away from the physical infrastructure and implementing it in software, offering greater versatility, scalability, and cost-efficiency compared to traditional storage solutions.
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