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Reminds me of the early days of Google File System.

They used trios of regular consumer grade disks/servers etc as a cluster and it looked like a single node.

They had to replace a LOT of hardware but this was still cheaper than big iron industrial grades servers.




Interestingly cheap redundancy is also how life does things for the most part. Most biological organisms just replicate a lot to guarantee success, so it's clearly a good strategy and an efficient use of energy.


Efficient as in evolution or in business: you just need to be more efficient than most of the peers




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