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by throw0101a 2131 days ago
> Today reliability is sufficient that one can meet a given data availability goal by replicating the data 2, 3, 4, 5, <whatever> times as there is only once in a blue moon a bad batch of drives when they tried out a new bearing lubricant or so.

Unless you have an uptime bug in the firmware where all your drives die at once:

* https://www.zdnet.com/article/hpe-tells-users-to-patch-ssds-...