[damienkatz]

"...if the client wanted true multi-node durability, then the write wouldn't have succeeded (the client would timeout waiting for replicas(s) to receive the update) and the client wouldn't unknowingly lose data."

[jeremiahjordan]

But that isn't W=1

[damienkatz]

Ok, you're right. I just changed it to W=2, and all the numbers are the same.