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		dang on July 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HN is up again The disks on both the primary and fallback servers definitely failed. Each was in a RAID setup, but those failed too in both cases.

_fjb4 on July 9, 2022 [–]

Ouch! I'm assuming the disks were from the same batch and installed at the same time, but having at least four fail like that is just crazy unlucky.

dang on July 9, 2022 | [–]

Veteran programmer and HN user kabdib has proposed a striking theory that could explain everything: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32028511.

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