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Re:135 Terabytes for $12,000 by VikingCoder on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @09:28AM (#3102822)
why are you building a datacenter on a floodplain?

Every spot in our solar system is susceptible to some unrecoverable disaster. If you don't want to lose your data, you have to have copies in more than one physical location.

Re:135 Terabytes for $12,000 by nknight on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @02:56PM (#3104011)
Yeah, I'll get right on that Mars mirror.

Seriously, I didn't say he was wrong in theory, but focusing so much attention on the highly unlikely to the detriment of the exceedingly common is a drastic distortion of the issue, and a cost/benefit analysis skewed in either direction can have costly repercussions.