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There's different sources of failures, and when you start claiming 11 nines of durability, you really have to go and think about all the different possible causes of failure. So it's not just a flat continuous rate, it's a sum of many different things.

11 nines is such a big number, you start modelling natural catastrophes, floods, solar flares, very unlikely discrete events as well.



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