One of the most fascinating things I learned as a kid is that you can cut a Planaria flatworm in half, and each half regenerates the missing half. So now you have two Planaria.

If this works for the CSVCHAIN PC, you could have exponentially increasing compute power and storage!

Regarding the socks, a good trick is to use two drawers. One drawer has only matched pairs of socks. Unmatched single socks go in the second drawer, and some of them will eventually find a matching sock.

I plan to write an article on this. I will call it Socks and the Singles Drawer.

Socks are in fact immutable infrastructure. When your EC2 instance crashes, you shut it down and provision a new one. When your socks get holes, you throw them out and buy new ones. This isn't 2010 anymore, you really think people debug their servers and mend their socks?

When the first drive fills, take the hash of the file, and make it the first line of drive two. That way they are chained together.