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It sounds like not very practical metrics, since losing one byte often makes whole dataset useless (encryption, checksums failures).
by riku_iki 4y ago
It sounds like not very practical metrics, since losing one byte often makes whole dataset useless (encryption, checksums failures).
- ravi-delia 4y agoIt's an average- presumably they don't smear files across disks byte by byte, since that would be insane. But with drives randomly breaking, at some point every copy of at least one file will go at once. With, say, a terabyte of files over a thousand years, you'd expect to lose a total number of files equal to 100Kb. So probably not even one, with some small chance of losing half a drive.
- riku_iki 4y agoI think probability to lose any data in 100tb should be good metric.