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According to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32024485

each server has a pair of mirrored disks, so it seems we're talking about 4 drives failing, not just 2.

On the other hand the primary seems to have gone down 6 hours before the backup server did, so the failures weren't quite simultaneous.




> so it seems we're talking about 4 drives failing, not just 2.

Yes—I'm a bit unclear on what happened there, but that does seem to be the case.




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