The cost of disks
When I’m providing quotes for servers and systems, I’m often asked why the disks are so expensive. This is frequently accompanied by a statement that they can go down to the local department store and by a multi-terabyte disk for …
Tag: backups
On hard disks and backups
It’s an inescapable law of physics that anything which has moving parts will fail eventually. So, it’s no surprise that the things which fail most often in computer hardware are the parts that move: hard disks and fans (which I …