In my home server my Seagates have been dying one after another, I have replaced each failed one with a Toshiba and they have been rock solid so far

Holy shit, I thought that it would bring some minor improvements, but those benchmarks are insane

Silicosis can come from a wide variety of sources, basically anything where stone dust occurs can produce it, even natural stone countertop manufacturing has long been known to be dangerous in that regard.
This whole ban feels more like populism than addressing the real problems. Engineered stone has become a popular material, lots of people have worked with it with insufficient safety precautions and now there’s a number of people permanently disabled by it.
Simply banning engineered stone won’t solve that problem, since it will now just happen with other materials.

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