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They don't use traditional RAID setups there. My understanding is they use a proprietary data encoding and distribution, which is more accepting of individual
by linsomniac 7y ago
They don't use traditional RAID setups there. My understanding is they use a proprietary data encoding and distribution, which is more accepting of individual drive failures and reduces rebuild times. I believe I've heard they use something more like erasure coding rather than RAID-5.
- ddorian43 7y agohttps://www.backblaze.com/blog/reed-solomon/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/reed-solomon/ There are many open source libraries.