Reply to post: Happens more often than you might think...

Noise from blast of gas destroys Digiplex data depot disk drives

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Happens more often than you might think...

Failure rate should be less than 50%. In a modern server environment, with local redundancy, RAID storage arrays and geographic replication, you’d have to be a tad unlucky to lose any data. Bloody expensive to fix though - getting the gas canisters removed and refilled costs a small fortune.

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