What’s your experience like at other storage outfits?
I only ask because your post is a bit like singing praises for Cinnabon that they make their own dough.
The things that you mentioned are standard storage company activities.
Checksum-all-the-things is a basic feature of a lot of file systems. If you can already set up your home computer to detect bitrot and alert you, you can bet big storage vendors do it.
Keeping track of hard drive failure rates by vendor is normal. Storage companies publicly publish their own reports. The tiny 6-person IT operation I was in had a spreadsheet. Hell, I toured a friend’s friend’s major data center last year and he managed to find time to talk hard drive vendors. Now you. I get it — y’all make spreadsheets.
There are a lot of smart people working on storage outside AWS and long before AWS existed.
I only ask because your post is a bit like singing praises for Cinnabon that they make their own dough.
The things that you mentioned are standard storage company activities.
Checksum-all-the-things is a basic feature of a lot of file systems. If you can already set up your home computer to detect bitrot and alert you, you can bet big storage vendors do it.
Keeping track of hard drive failure rates by vendor is normal. Storage companies publicly publish their own reports. The tiny 6-person IT operation I was in had a spreadsheet. Hell, I toured a friend’s friend’s major data center last year and he managed to find time to talk hard drive vendors. Now you. I get it — y’all make spreadsheets.
There are a lot of smart people working on storage outside AWS and long before AWS existed.