[geeks] Fwd: [IP] Interesting speculation on the tech behind gmail

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: adh at an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich Maker)
> Date: 2004/04/07 Wed PM 05:22:34 GMT
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Fwd: [IP] Interesting speculation on the tech behind gmail

Why replace them as the fail? Wait until you get enough failures in one area, then clear out the broken machines to install known good ones...

At an estimated $300-500/system, I think their idea is that they have all their cold spares "on line" - before a critical number of them "die" they will probably want to replace them with faster, denser, more efficient systems.

I suspect replacing dead units is an as-time-is-available exercise...
 

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