"The Life and Times of a Backblaze Hard Drive"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/life-and-times-of-a-backblaze-hard-drive/

"ackblaze likes to talk about hard drive failures — a lot. What we
haven’t talked much about is how we deal with those failures: the daily
dance of temp drives, replacement drives, and all the clones that it
takes to keep over 100,000 drives healthy. Let’s go behind the scenes
and take a look at that dance from the eyes of one Backblaze hard drive."

"After sitting still for what seemed like forever, ZCH007BZ was on the
move. ZCH007BZ, let’s call him Zach, is a Seagate 12 TB hard drive. For
the last few weeks, Zach and over 6,000 friends were securely sealed
inside their protective cases in the ready storage area of a Backblaze
data center. Being a hard disk drive, Zach’s modest dream was to be
installed in a system, spin merrily, and store data for many years to
come. And now the wait was nearly over, or was it?"

Cool !

Lynn

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