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> and in some cases...externals that were made internal! :)

I remember reading about this a while back[1] (fun read!).

Have you guys noticed a big difference in life expectancy of the repurposed external drives or do they generally match up with their internal equivalents?

[1]: http://blog.backblaze.com/2012/10/09/backblaze_drive_farming...

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Interestingly, we think they do as well if not better (http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/12/04/enterprise-drive-reliab...). We think it's because external drives are meant to be jostled around by Joe Schmo, so they do well in our storage pods, whereas internal drives and especially enterprise drives are meant to live in a perfectly Utopian environment.

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