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by jamwt 5752 days ago
I agree; I don't get all the fuss about "single server durability." Single servers fail all the time. After many hard lessons learned, I just assume that if it's only on a single server it's as good as gone. Bad RAID controllers, etc.

If you're really worried about durability, you should be replicating anyway--and, ideally, over 3+ nodes at least two datacenters. I've always just assumed MongoDB was designed around that idea.