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[-] Toribor@corndog.social 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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 1 points 5 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.

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