Double Production.... Right?

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Double Production.... Right?

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When hardware manufacturers announce they're doubling NAND memory capacity, every sysadmin and DevOps engineer immediately goes into panic mode. Sure, double the storage sounds great until you realize it means double the potential for catastrophic data loss, double the complexity in RAID configurations, and double the fun when trying to explain to management why "more storage" doesn't automatically mean "better performance."

The nervous smile turning into existential dread perfectly captures that moment when you realize your carefully balanced production environment is about to get "upgraded" whether you like it or not. Because nothing says "stable infrastructure" quite like forcing everyone to migrate to new hardware with twice the capacity and probably twice the weird edge cases you'll discover at 3 AM.

Spoiler alert: It's never production-ready when they say it is. You'll be the one finding out the hard way.

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