存储系统的可靠性

今天看到下面S3对数据可靠性的描述(http://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/)，有点不可思议，把以前看的可靠性资料整理一下。 

Q: How durable is Amazon S3?
Amazon S3 is designed to provide 99.999999999%durability of objects over a given year. This durability level corresponds toan average annual expected loss of 0.000000001% of objects. For example, if youstore 10,000 objects with Amazon S3, you can on average expect to incur a lossof a single object once every 10,000,000 years. In addition, Amazon S3 isdesigned to sustain the concurrent loss of data in two facilities. 

Q: How is Amazon S3 designed to achieve 99.999999999% durability?
Amazon S3 redundantly stores your objects onmultiple devices across multiple facilities in an Amazon S3 Region. The serviceis designed to sustain concurrent device failures by quickly detecting andrepairing any lost redundancy. When processing a request to