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All of Japan's Toyota Assembly Plants Shut Down for a Day Because Their Server Ran Out of Disk Space (www.reuters.com)
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[โ€“] mdd@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't you just add a few external USB drives? (heard this more than once at an NGO think tank.)

[โ€“] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I mean I've worked at a hosting company that had a bunch of static sites running off an SSD connected by usb to the server so this did happen back in the day. I try not to think about those days.

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