2.5 Admins 315: Hot Bus Adapter

What to read into a study of long-term Backblaze hard drive failure data, why the difference between TB and TiB matters, and what to do about an overheating host bus adapter.

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ZFS vs Ceph: Choosing the Right Storage Architecture (klarasystems.com/webinars/zfs-vs-ceph-choosing…)

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Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze hard drives ranks HGST most reliable and Toshiba the least — Analysis of 1.66 million drive-years finds Seagate and Toshiba HDDs fail at roughly twice the rate of WD and HGST (tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/peer-revie…)

Changing Language for Storage Capacity (mwl.io/archives/24954)

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