Thanks for the reply Brian. I'm a big fan of sharding across hosts and doing your own RS. I'm mildly surprised that you're disk and CPU limited, but there's lot

Thanks for the reply Brian. I'm a big fan of sharding across hosts and doing your own RS. I'm mildly surprised that you're disk and CPU limited, but there's lots of factors that can come into play with that and it sounds like you are happy with the tradeoffs which is all that really matters. I'm a big fan of what Backblaze has done. If you ever want to talk about replication strategies or similar stuff, I've built large scale storage systems in the past--please feel free to reach out to the email in my profile if you'd like to talk shop and trade notes.