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josephagoss on Dec 9, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (2007)

They really advertise 99.999999999%? Isn't that 1 byte lost for every 100,000,000 Terabytes or something silly like that?

brianpgordon on Dec 9, 2013 [–]

Yes:

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#How_durable_is_Amazon_S3

I suppose that if they ever lose an object then they can say "well we warned you that you might lose an object every hundred million years."

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