Magic Pocket: Dropbox’s Exabyte-Scale Blob Storage System

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"It’s fairly easy to design a system with astronomically high durability numbers. 24 nines is a mean time to failure of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. When your MTTF dwarfs the age of the universe then it might be time to reevaluate your priorities. Should we trust these numbers though? Of course not, because the secret truth is that adherence to theoretical durability estimates is missing the point. They tell you how likely you are to lose data due to routine disk failure, but routine disk failure is easy to model for and protect against. If you lose data due to routine disk failure you’re probably doing something wrong." https://medium.com/@jamesacowling/how-many-nines-is-my-storage-system-7d16e852d56d.

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