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Reminds me of the early days of Google File System. They used trios of regular consumer grade disks/servers etc as a cluster and it looked like a single node.
by alexpotato 2y ago
Reminds me of the early days of Google File System.
They used trios of regular consumer grade disks/servers etc as a cluster and it looked like a single node.
They had to replace a LOT of hardware but this was still cheaper than big iron industrial grades servers.
- moffkalast 2y agoInterestingly cheap redundancy is also how life does things for the most part. Most biological organisms just replicate a lot to guarantee success, so it's clearly a good strategy and an efficient use of energy.
- szundi 2y agoEfficient as in evolution or in business: you just need to be more efficient than most of the peers