> If you previously stored your data on 10 drives and now you can store the same data on 5 drives, that reduces the probability of failure of the system as a wh

> If you previously stored your data on 10 drives and now you can store the same data on 5 drives, that reduces the probability of failure of the system as a whole, right? Well it also means in the case of failure you get 2x the spread of damage across the same amount of data