I consider it a kind of 'disk tax'. My servers utilise RAID 5 with a hot spare, and one of the drives failed a couple of weeks ago. The server self-repaired, and by the time I was physically present and able to replace the faulty drive, it had been automatically downgraded to a disabled drive, leaving me without a hot spare.
Anyway, I replaced it, and now the rebuild of the spinning spare is underway. I estimate my WD Reds fail at a rate of about one per year. Each RAID is an extravagant 48 Terabytes.
I know. The complete works of Shakespeare comprise around 900,000 words (27 plays + 154 sonnets +x). Stored as high-resolution scans, it still amounts to only 1GB.
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