Alibaba Cloud says it has robot sysadmins that swap faulty disks in four minutes
Found on The Register on Sunday, 15 November 2020
Revealed was the fact the Chinese cloud super-platform has robots capable of finding and replacing faulty disks in four minutes.
At the 25-second mark of the video you’ll see a Seagate Constellation ES.3 disk drive, a 3.5-inch unit [PDF] that packs both SAS and SATA interfaces and rotates at a modest 7200 RPM.
If they are using Seagate drives, they sure need robots to swap the failing drives fast enough.