Are those calculations taking in a healthy amount of redundancy? BlackBlaze Storage Pods were designed without any redundancy as it's done purely in software by the company. They just let the hardware fail and replace the drives. The data is then copied from a near-by, healthy pod.
I'm sure the NSA has redundancy in their design but I wonder to what extent. Are there off-site backups? Could a physical disaster cause them to lose most or all of their data?
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Are those calculations taking in a healthy amount of redundancy? BlackBlaze Storage Pods were designed without any redundancy as it's done purely in software by the company. They just let the hardware fail and replace the drives. The data is then copied from a near-by, healthy pod.
I'm sure the NSA has redundancy in their design but I wonder to what extent. Are there off-site backups? Could a physical disaster cause them to lose most or all of their data?