[geeks] Fwd: [IP] Interesting speculation on the tech behind gmail

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 07 Apr 2004 @ 16:54 -0400, Sandwich Maker said:

NOTE: it's hard to read your replies when you cite with " and no space
instead of "> ".

> aren't disk mtbf into the 100000h range now?  and - assuming 73G
> drives - a 1 petabyte fs would require only ~14000 drives.  that works
> out to one disk failure every ~7h.  with raid5 and hot spares, hardly
> a crisis.

Exactly.

> mtbf of 100k boards would have to be in the 700000h [the better part
> of a century] to be equal.  are they really that good?

The problem with cheap PC motherboards is that out of 100K of them, a
number of them probably won't work when first powered on.

I know that a local shop that buys them by the thousand sends a number
of of them back to the distributor each month, DOA.


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