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Re:Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @02:10PM (#11291730)
Hey that is cool. I worked on the first commercial disk array at Thinking Machines Corporation in 1988. We used Reed-Solomon encoding because we didn't trust that the drives would catch all the errors (they did). Good work solving some of those bandwidth constraints in rebuilding the data. John (Smitty) Hayes