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Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New

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146 points walterbell | 2 comments | 12 Nov 25 18:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source
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LeifCarrotson ◴[12 Nov 25 18:44 UTC] No.45904120[source]▶
It's crazy to me that rsync.net is buying mission-critical enterprise drives on Amazon.

I don't buy drives on Amazon for my 9 year old's laptop because of the rampant fraud and counterfeiting, I'm shocked that they're trusted for any business use-cases by anyone moderately savvy. I'm even more shocked that the takeaway is to blame the individual seller, rather than the marketplace that makes it possible.

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1. monocasa ◴[12 Nov 25 18:52 UTC] No.45904260[source]▶
I mean, if you're a storage business, hopefully you've designed your architecture such that you assume drives will go bad, so you characterize the models of drive to make sure that not all the copies are on one manufacturer, and then you can take liberties finding the cheapest storage on the market. This only comes back to bite you when you didn't account for (because you didn't know) that there was decreased longevity, so your TCO calculation was off and you might not make as much money.
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2. rsync ◴[12 Nov 25 20:37 UTC] No.45906268[source]▶
I agree with this.

However, an even more fundamental philosophy behind any work that we do is "defense in depth" which means that even after building the fault-tolerant, anti-fragile system, we also spend time and resources qualifying the inputs ...

... and then spend time and resources monitoring the outputs (error rates, failures, correlation, etc.).

Any one of those pieces is, theoretically, sufficient. Layering the pieces in a defense in depth strategy is what gives us the highly confident posture we enjoy.