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Warning: This contains spoilers for Silicon Valley S4 E10:
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At 5:35 Gilfoyle says: "In order to hold that much data we would have to go RAID 0. [...] If we lose even one platter, we lose Melcher's data. Permanently."
But my question is: Why use RAID at all? Just storing the data without RAID would reduce the complexity, and if one disk fails, only the data on that one disk is lost. Also, I doubt speed is a priority at that point, since the whole thing is running on a home broadband connection, which something like a WD Gold data-center-harddrive (200+ MB/s) can easily max out.

Also, wouldn't it be easier to pay the broadband bill out of their own pocket, instead of moving tons of server equipment to Stanford?

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  • 2
    So that they can scale back to some level of Raid when they have enough of "anton's" memory
  • 1
    @coldfire Ok, but why use RAID 0? As far as I know it's the most unsecure version of RAID possible, isn't it? Why not use RAID 1, 5 or 10?
  • 2
    @sebh0602 Because RAID 0 is the only level storing the data only once and without any checksum. Therefore it’s the level that requires the least amount of space.

    I hope I got the terminology right.
  • 3
    Fucking crazy episode :D
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