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microtonal on Nov 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Arq (Mac backup) now works with Glacier

Isn't it more bytes in practice? That's 88 bits, but they could be spread over different bytes, right?

In other words: shouldn't you calculate the loss over the total number of bits?

luser001 on Nov 7, 2012 [–]

Sorry, my comment above wasn't well thought out. Amazon's durability guarantee is on a per-object basis, not on a per-byte basis. I will post an article here after I research it thoroughly.

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