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Not losing any data yet doesn't give justification for such absurd numbers
by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Not losing any data yet doesn't give justification for such absurd numbers
- joshuamorton 7y agoThose numbers probably aren't as absurd as you think. 16 9s is, I think 10 bytes lost per exabyte-year of data storage. There's perhaps the additional asterisk of "and we haven't suffered a catastrophic event that entirely puts us out of business". (Which is maybe only terrorist attacks). Because then you're talking about losing data only when cosmic-ray bitflips happen simultaneously in data centers on different continents, which I'd expect doesn't happen too often.