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Thanks for this!

I'd be interested in whether shucking drives from external enclosures has any noticible effect on drive life. But the data doesn't seem to capture whether the drivers were shucked or not?

Is that something Backblaze has investigated? Or is the need for drives such that it doesn't matter if shucking does cause shorter life?

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The tracking on that wasn't easy to align with these data, but from what we've seen the shucked drives seemed to perform similarly. At this point, the percentage of shucked drives in the data set is fairly small.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/crowdsourcing-hard-drives/

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