In face of cheap TB disks erasure coding seems to be a far better option than RAID. http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Erasure-coding-versus-RAID-as-a-data-

In face of cheap TB disks erasure coding seems to be a far better option than RAID. http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Erasure-coding-versus-RAID-as-a-data-protection-method http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Erasure-coding-versus-... Is there any empirical data which zfec parameters are recommended for which device? AFAIK reliability is DVD < Blueray < SSD < HD < tape < cloud.