In what can only be described as a truly amazing demonstration of Sun’s latest attempt to deliver robust, nay, unburstable storage, they’ve just declared that downtime on its latest range of reduced fat, cures all known diseases, includes no artificial colourings, no-tangle hair curling tongs...
Sorry, got carried away there. Not as carried away as the Sun marketing bods, though. Apparently, the downtime on Sun's latest storage, is – wait for it –
3 femto seconds
That’s right,19 9s availability. If that's per year (and let's be generous with a year here, even though the stuff hasn't been out more than a few months), then it’s only ever down for the amount of time it takes a beam of light to travel approximately 0.1mm.
Wow.
Either the laws of physics have been suspended at Sun, or the numbers are – just ever so slightly – wrong. Even if Sun correct the number and it falls down from the realms of the fantastic, there appears to be no evidence, no track record and no independent audit that Sun can point to for even one nine, far less duotrigintillions of them.
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