Thanks for the reply Brian. I&#x27;m a big fan of sharding across hosts and doing your own RS. I&#x27;m mildly surprised that you&#x27;re disk and CPU limited, but there&#x27;s lots of factors that can come into play with that and it sounds like you are happy with the tradeoffs which is all that really matters. I&#x27;m a big fan of what Backblaze has done. If you ever want to talk about replication strategies or similar stuff, I&#x27;ve built large scale storage systems in the past--please feel free to reach out to the email in my profile if you&#x27;d like to talk shop and trade notes.