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2.5 Admins 315: Hot Bus Adapter

September 3, 2026 · 27 min

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What to read into a study of long-term Backblaze hard drive failure data, why the difference between TB and TiB matters, and what to do about an overheating host bus adapter.

 

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ZFS vs Ceph: Choosing the Right Storage Architecture

 

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Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze hard drives ranks HGST most reliable and Toshiba the least — Analysis of 1.66 million drive-years finds Seagate and Toshiba HDDs fail at roughly twice the rate of WD and HGST

Changing Language for Storage Capacity

 

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