From all I heard, Google doesn't have "preferred" vendors - it buys from many sources as to diversify its stack.
Every HDD producer had a bad day - and only by diversifying one can assure that data will live on regardless of single vendor problem.
As if nobody here had such experience: five Dells shipped to us all had hard drives failed in 2-3 months. (Most ridiculous part: the hard drives were from different vendors, only common part was "Dell"). Or our RAID from Dell failing due to one hard drive failure and then consequent second hard drive failure during populating replacement for first hard drive. (Tape backups are still only way to ensure data survival.)
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Ihar `Philips` Filipau @ Feb 20th 2007 3:51AM
From all I heard, Google doesn't have "preferred" vendors - it buys from many sources as to diversify its stack.
Every HDD producer had a bad day - and only by diversifying one can assure that data will live on regardless of single vendor problem.
As if nobody here had such experience: five Dells shipped to us all had hard drives failed in 2-3 months. (Most ridiculous part: the hard drives were from different vendors, only common part was "Dell"). Or our RAID from Dell failing due to one hard drive failure and then consequent second hard drive failure during populating replacement for first hard drive. (Tape backups are still only way to ensure data survival.)