Comment by mulmen
8 years ago
I wonder how terrifying it would be to get a notification every time a single underlying storage device on something like Dropbox or S3 failed. We all know there is some kind of redundant system but how often does your data get moved around because of failures?
At that scale it's probably like a slow rain.
You could be made to feel better if the alert only came when it concerned your data. But even then, and going by the NAS sitting under my desk you could be months without any activity and then suddenly two drives fail in two weeks. It's a nice little random data generator.
Ah yeah I was unclear there, I meant notifications of the devices under your own data.
e: Also, is it so surprising that your drives failed around the same time? It’s likely they were purchased together!
Past a certain point it would be just a part of the job. As long as you have hot spares, you'd just go around replacing failed drives every day or whenever.