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by moreati 3627 days ago
Perhaps it was https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/07/pocket-watch/ ?

    > we use a variant on Reed-Solomon erasure coding that is similar to Local Reconstruction Codes
    > according to this model, a given block in Magic Pocket is safe with 99.9999999999999999999999999% probability!
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Awesome! Yes, exactly that.

I tried searching for "petabyte" but I guess I came 1 order of magnitude short...

Thanks a lot! It was driving me crazy..