# Single-Disk Point of Failure

> Storing data on a single disk with no redundancy, so that one disk's failure loses everything.

Record: `lexicon:single-disk-point-of-failure`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Correctness Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/correctness-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-single-disk-point-of-failure

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Parity-Based Recovery](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/parity-based-recovery.md) and before [Write Amplification](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/write-amplification.md).

## Category

- [Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/self-healing-recovery-deployment-safety.md)

## Negated by

- [RAID Redundancy](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/raid-redundancy.md)

## Linked from

- [Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-self-healing-recovery-deployment-safety.md)