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Comment Re:Farts in their general direction. (Score 1) 445

I heard the same thing, but this is Dropbox not Google. I doubt they're using high end SAS drives, but they're probably using something more along the lines of the WD SE drives as opposed to WD Greens (or equivalent). I've had extremely high failure rates with greens - my last RAID5 consisted of 5 1.5TB greens, 2 died within the warranty period, 2 died within months after the warranty period ended, and one of the original warranty replacements died after that. ~70% failure rate in 2.5 years. Yuck. Hooray for backups.

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