[SATLUG] Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3)...

[K. Spoon]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 10:57:44AM -0600, John Pappas wrote:
> Add one downside: it is still (most likely) a single spindle.  AFAIK S3
> uses "google-esque" storage - IE lots of commodity hardware EXPECTED to
> fail regularly, so it it stored redundantly to counter fragile node
> failure.

If only those gimps would release GoogleFS...  :(

And while it's not the same, you could probably rig up enough of a
safety net with RAID and multiple boxes in different locations to get
by.

-- 
K. Spoon <kell at spoonix.com>