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Comment by Dylan16807

1 year ago

That sounds a lot better than some number of nines standing by itself.

99.(9)x percent durability is almost meaningless without a description of what the unit of data is, what a loss looks like. There's too many orders of magnitude between a chunky file having an error, a transaction having an error, a block having an error, a bit having an error...

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