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Re:The Bootstrapper's Bargain by bluedino on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @01:20PM (#5639295)
The pods have internal redundancy, and your data is stored on more than one pod, so I'm okay with them using consumer hardware to back my data up. They also wouldn't be doing it if they weren't sure that the drives were reliable enough for that use.
Re:The Bootstrapper's Bargain by rubinelli on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @01:27PM (#5639357)
That's one of my favorite uses of probability: if you know what you are doing, you can build extremely reliable systems out of unreliable components.