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by Asraelite 462 days ago
> One server with a RAID array can survive, usually, 1 or maybe 2 drive failures.

Standard RAID configurations can only handle 2 failures, but there are libraries and filesystems allowing arbitrarily high redundancy.

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As long as it's all in one server, there's still a lot of situations that can immediately cut through all that redundancy.

As long as it's all in one physical location, there's still fire and weather as ways to immediately cut through all that redundancy.