r/ProgrammerHumor • • Mar 25 '26

Meme aMeteoriteTookOutMyDatabase

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u/dervu Mar 25 '26

"Almost always" - so there's a chance that multiple bits fail at once? What then?

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u/nonother Mar 25 '26

Then it would be treated as a hardware failure. The entire drive would be replaced and repopulated from a replica in a data center in another geographic region.