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For these parameters, yes. If you have a raid, then you have 2 copies with like 99.99% availability and 5 mean time years to failure. With a volunteer drive y

For these parameters, yes. If you have a raid, then you have 2 copies with like 99.99% availability and 5 mean time years to failure. With a volunteer drive you have like ?% availability and ?% years to failure? You can't depend on it. Also the average value of data is very low, you don't want to be making many copies of for no reason.

stavros 2y ago
That would mean that even with a million volunteer drives storing a file, you still wouldn't be able to depend on them, which is plainly wrong. > Also the average value of data is very low, you don't want to be making many copies of for no reason. The reason is that the value of that data is high to the archivist, since they want to preserve it.
- TZubiri 2y ago
  A million is out of the parameters of the case. Realistically you won't get enough volunteer-storage to cover one IA. And even if you did, it wouldn't satisfy the mission requirements, which is to store reliably for decades all of the data.
  - stavros 2y ago
    This isn't meant to be storage for IA, it's meant to be a distributed backup.
    - TZubiri 2y ago
      Ah my bad, so it's not a replacement of IA. In that case it makes sense
      - stavros 2y ago
        Yes, the idea is that this is a replacement for the torrents they make public. In case the IA goes away, we'll have this distributed dataset to fall back on.
        TZubiri 2y ago
        An archive of an archive