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Re:Ask HN: Do you find working on large distributed systems ... by qorrect on Saturday February 19, 2022 @05:36PM (#30401190)
This cracked me up. Thanks fxtentacle :D.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you find working on large distributed systems ... by dekhn on Monday February 21, 2022 @10:00AM (#30416573)
of course, the reason that's wrong is that if one drive fails you don't have a 56pb storage system, you have something smaller because of redundancy.

That redundancy, and the performance that scales due to it, place cloud services in an entirely different class from on prem servers.

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