[Cementjungle]

I have individual drives fail from time to time in servers and it’s no big deal—all are hot-swappable and it’s just a matter of plugging in a new drive and telling the array to rebuild—no downtime required.

You have to assume that drives WILL fail from time to time... and SSD's aren't immune to failure either.

Back when I was doing this, we always kept spare drives in the cage with the servers. When needed, we could call the COLO staff and tell them to put a new drive into bay XXX and they would... then we remotely configure it and bring it online. Simple.

[dinodino]

Exactly. If I have a drive failure on the other side of the ocean, we know immediately from automated notifications and simply have the duty engineer swap the drive with a new one which is inside the cage itself. It’s almost instantaneous.