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		linsomniac on Feb 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hard Drive Stats for 2019 They don't use traditional RAID setups there. My understanding is they use a proprietary data encoding and distribution, which is more accepting of individual drive failures and reduces rebuild times. I believe I've heard they use something more like erasure coding rather than RAID-5.

ddorian43 on Feb 11, 2020 [–]

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