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I never really store data on my local machines anymore. All of my data is either hosted only on, or backed up to, my storage server. I think the selling point of ceph is that every server in my apartment can be part of my storage cluster and data I really want to avoid loosing can be persisted across all of them.

For me latency isn't really a large issue. I read and write everything locally on my SSD-backed desktop/laptop and then sync my files to my storage node via git or rsync or something. For me data integrity and availability are important.