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		MichaelApproved on Nov 15, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Anyone used Amazon EC2 with a database or ... Doesn't Amazon already RAID the storage they offer you? Is drive failure something I need to worry about? I thought they had a beefy RAID system already in place.

janitha on Nov 15, 2009 [–]

They do, but I think he's talking about doing a raid0 just to leech more io, not safety.

MichaelApproved on Nov 15, 2009 | [–]

I see now with all the comments that everyone is referring to getting more platters spinning the data.

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