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by CodesInChaos 1225 days ago
It's unavoidable that too many disk failures in quick succession lead to data-loss. For example if you store two copies, your durability rests on being able to detect a disk failure and create another copy, before the sole remaining version dies as well.
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"What do you mean you mean it can't recover from a 100% disk failure rate?

At least it's all in RAID 0, so the data's safe."