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by obfuscate 5536 days ago
Not sure what you had in mind by "large", but instance storage goes up to 1.7TB: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
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Devilboy 5536 days ago
The reason Reddit uses RAID10 is for performance, not disk size. A single instance storage device is just too slow for the Reddit database.
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obfuscate 5535 days ago
Many instance types have 2 or 4 virtual disks (presumably on different physical disks).
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