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It's essentially a RAID6 design for rocket engines.
by biot 14y ago
It's essentially a RAID6 design for rocket engines.
- tomasquintero 14y agoRAID5, they can only sustain one failure.
- biot 14y agoIncorrect. From the fine article (SpaceX's release): "It is worth noting that Falcon 9 shuts down two of its engines to limit acceleration to 5 g's even on a fully nominal flight. The rocket could therefore have lost another engine and still completed its mission."