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> (100 bytes per TB are expected to go bad every year)

That's unsettling. Source?



Sorry, I think I should retract that statement which I seem to have recalled mistakenly. The error rate seems to be quite a bit lower than that, so I will post an article here after I research it thoroughly.


Sorry, it's 10 bytes, not 100.

1 TB = 2^40 bytes

Amazon claims 99.999999999% durability. https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/

2^40 * (1 - 99.999999999/100) = 10.99 bytes


Isn't it more bytes in practice? That's 88 bits, but they could be spread over different bytes, right?

In other words: shouldn't you calculate the loss over the total number of bits?


Sorry, my comment above wasn't well thought out. Amazon's durability guarantee is on a per-object basis, not on a per-byte basis. I will post an article here after I research it thoroughly.




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