The invention relates to a storage system comprising one or more storage controllers, two or more storage devices and two or more storage clients, the storage controllers, the storage devices and the storage clients being coupled via a network in order to exchange information between the storage controllers, said storage devices and said storage clients, wherein each storage client is adapted to provide data-path-storage commands to the storage devices via the network bypassing the storage controllers, wherein the storage system is adapted to provide data redundancy using a data redundancy scheme higher than RAID 1.