I see what you're saying, and I failed to illuminate that I'm coming from the perspective of someone who is working with a cluster of riak nodes. Riak is a rin

I see what you're saying, and I failed to illuminate that I'm coming from the perspective of someone who is working with a cluster of riak nodes. Riak is a ring topology much inspired by the Amazon S3 design. I'd never trust anything to just one spinning rust device, sure. I was taking a distributed storage architecture (using whatever open source platform you prefer) for granted. But I recognize that S3 predates many of them.