Besides speed, there is another difference between local and remote storage: remote storage is on a different failure domain. A machine is still a single failu

Besides speed, there is another difference between local and remote storage: remote storage is on a different failure domain. A machine is still a single failure domain since the storage/RAM/CPU share a power supply / battery backup. If you change an application to use remote storage rather than local storage, you may not get severe performance degradation in some cases, but your application will experience more failure modes than it did before.