On 22/08/2025 17:31, Jon Perryman wrote:
Your car consumes 3 gallons per hour, therefore your car consumed
26,352 gallons last year. I'll leave the guesswork to the sales
people.
My car is not running 24x7, but I rather suspect that Google's
servers are. Or perhaps they switch them off at night, you know,
when people aren't on the Internet?
Google uses huge numbers of cheap consumer hard drives,
set up in RAID format in "pods". They don't bother replacing
individual drives when they fail (the labour costs outweigh
the savings), they just swap out the whole pod for a brand new
one when enough drives fail. They do keep track of which
brands and which models last longest and are therefore best value.
But I am sure that IBM's Enterprise Data Storage Solutions
will be cost competitive. :-)
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Martin
Dr Martin Ward | Email: mar...@gkc.org.uk | http://www.gkc.org.uk
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