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mrbluecoattoday at 11:26 AM2 repliesview on HN

Stopped reading at "Our main storage arrays have no redundancy". This isn't a data center, it's a volatile AI memory bank.


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sgarlandtoday at 5:05 PM

You should have kept reading:

> Redundancy is not needed since no specific data is critical.

> we have a redundant mkv storage array to store all of our trained models and training metrics.

That's just called understanding your failure domains, and RTO/RPO needs.

huntaubtoday at 1:03 PM

This turns out to be a more and more important primitive for companies who are building their own models [1].

[1] https://si.inc/posts/the-heap/