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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Ariane Failure
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"Never" is a really long time! :-) Seriously. There are lots of good
engineering reasons to develop multi-redundant identical systems. See my
other post relating to that. See RAID and JABOD drives as one example of
how/why this can be a good thing.

MDC
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"Steve O'Neill" <oneils@gbr.msd.ray.com> wrote in message
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>
> Well, no matter where you assume the failures will or will not occur you
> should never design a dual-redundant system where both strings are
> identical.
>
> Steve