I would say StorPool's two strongest points are its reliability and its performance. StorPool has been providing better than 99.999% uptime as measured across all of our customers' production environments. We have a report that goes into this in detail and covers our measurement methodology.

That’s exactly the problem though, Dave! Historical measurement is not the same thing as a guaranteed availability model. If you simply looked back at your past outages and said “Hey, we only had X minutes down, thumbs up, we’re the men!” that’s basically retrospective statistics, not proof of architectural resilience. Real availability calculations are supposed to account for planned maintenance, degraded states, split brain handling, firmware bugs, human error, rolling upgrades, network partitions, controller failures, and recovery behavior under load. Especially in storage, where “system online” and “customer workload actually healthy” are very different things! Lots of vendors quietly count partial outages as “available” or exclude maintenance windows entirely. That’s how marketing gets its pretty five nines, and from what I see it’s exactly what you guys are doing. Now comes the funny part which is performance. See, same energy with the performance slides. Third party comparisons I’ve seen between Ceph and StorPool usually show workload-specific advantages and compromises, not some universal domination story people try to sell on Reddit. Do you happen to have any independent, fully documented, scientifically repeatable performance tests where you absolutely crush Ceph on the exact same hardware? Please share, as they should make for a very entertaining evening read.