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Re:Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - persistent storage by patrickg-zill on Thursday August 21, 2008 @12:39PM (#282845)
I realize there is no 0% failure, 100% guaranteed storage.

However, saying "yep, your storage space is now dead and you have lost all your files stored there" is not something I feel comfortable with. Why not offer something more resilient?

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Re:Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - persistent storage by Tichy on Thursday August 21, 2008 @03:16PM (#283037)
Because it would get more expensive?

Probably you could combine several of these "drives" for more resilience?

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Re:Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - persistent storage by jrockway on Thursday August 21, 2008 @03:07PM (#283021)
Why not offer something more resilient?

Why force that added expense on people that don't want it? Some people might be using the disk as temporary storage, or something.

Anyway, you can easily back up to S3... so everyone gets what they want.

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