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		linsomniac on Aug 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019 When I said "just let failed drives sit", I didn't imagine loss of redundancy, I imagined that they would re-balance it to other drives.

cyphar on Aug 7, 2019 [–]

Ah, okay. Unless you have hot spares already in the storage pod (which they might do), I don't think it'd be trivial -- or even a good idea -- to mess with the data/parity shards after the fact.

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