Dell ECS 'Eleven 9s' Durability: The Claim Without the Calculation

Dell ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage) and its software-defined successor ObjectScale claim &ldquo;99.999999999 (eleven 9s)&rdquo; data durability [1][2]. This appears in technical FAQs, whitepapers, and product documentation as a key reliability metric. The architecture uses standard Reed-Solomon 12+4 erasure coding - well-understood technology with published mathematical foundations. The component…