Reply to post: Nope Re: Google uses their scrap drives

So what exactly sits behind Google’s Nearline storage service?

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Nope Re: Google uses their scrap drives

I can tell you definitively that Google is not using old drives (and neither is Amazon). The costs associated with failure rates far outweigh any benefits.

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