I get that local storage is good for perf, and everyone has some, but you HAVE to understand how disastrously bad it is for availability (unless you do replicat

I get that local storage is good for perf, and everyone has some, but you HAVE to understand how disastrously bad it is for availability (unless you do replication yourself, a la Cassandra). That said, we hear you, we're contemplating options for local-disk volumes.