[SteveArmstrong]

3. I think he was referring to aggregate file size (total amount stored) not a single file. If that's the case, his point still stands.

4. He was probably saying that, as the average age of the nodes in the network goes up, the chance of them failing goes up. Also, the duplication you say (hundreds of copies) is in direct opposition to usable space (hundreds of copies means you can only use 1/100 of the space on your node. Because of this, I don't think your files will ever be duplicated on the order of "hundreds", probably less than 10. Also, it's important to keep clear: My node will backup to hundreds of other nodes, but each individual file fragment will only be duplicated to 3 (or whatever) nodes. That smaller number is the important one that keeps getting discussed.

[the_paul]

There won't be hundreds of copies. A device may back up data to hundreds of other devices in total, though.

Space Monkey data will be resilient to considerably more than 3 nodes failing.

[peterwwillis]

Hundreds of devices storing small files on your one hard drive could be more iops than the device can handle. Does Space Monkey account for other users potentially killing the performance of a single device?