A wee while back, Western Digital started advertising unrecoverable error rates as 10^15 instead of 1^14. Creative strategies is right.

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4. May 2016 13:46 by ldo@geek-central.gen.nz:

It used to be that warranties for hard drives were for some specified
number of years, it didn��t matter how much load they were under
(compare SSDs). But it seems that is now changing, as capacities are
pushed to the point where ever more creative strategies are needed to
get the devices to work at all
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/03/when_did_hard_drives_get_workload_rate_limits>.
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