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		Negitivefrags on March 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardwa... We have 100 physical servers and hardware failures really are very rare. Very rare. In fact over 4 years we have only had 3 hard drives fail and no other hardware failures.

geoka9 on March 17, 2015 [–]

Do you have any plans on replacing your hard drives as they get old? Or you just wait for them to fail?

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