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Not open source. What would be your use case?

No BSD support unfortunately. Just Linux, Mac, windows.

We developed Object Mount (formerly cunoFS) ( https://www.storj.io/object-mount?hn=1 ) specifically to not rely on any metadata storage other than S3 AND preserve 1:1 mapping of ob…

Storj supports arbitrary configured backends each with different erasure coding, node placement, etc.

When the cameras become a revenue stream for a city it is not a good thing. Cameras have been installed to fine cars running red lights. The city then reduces the length of the yel…

I switched banks until one worked. Others I access on the web.

* I work in my unfinished basement, but often roam to recliners in the house because the basement is cold in the winter * standing desk from IKEA * 5K ultra wide LG monitor * Think…

What room do you use in the house? Do you have a special desk? What monitors do you have? Keyboard? Mouse? Do you work from a laptop? Do you move around the house? What other equip…

Database indexes are definitely one of the most approachable concepts of databases for computer science majors. If you have studied data structures and Big O notation you have all …

Matt Might was one of my favorite professors when I was in school. I hadn't learned about his son's passing until seeing this. Both Matt and his son are an inspiration to what can …

S3 has been around for a long time and they had a lot of objects to transition when they upgraded, so I imagine that is why it took awhile. There are other object storage systems t…

Discussed in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26581399 There is a 'Contact Us' button at the bottom of the page you can always reach out.

Another thread I posted a little bit about how we are compared to glacier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26582429 Glacier can get pricey when you store/retrieve your data be…

How do you arrive at twice as expensive as AWS glacier? AWS S3 Glacier is the same $0.004/GB/month and requires the same minimum of 90 days, but retrieval takes "from 1 minute to 1…

This is great feedback, we'll take this into consideration. You can always reach out to talk about specifics about your use case and how we can better meet it (there is a Contact U…

Precisely. Although we also believe you shouldn't have to worry about going bankrupt if you ever need to restore all your data or want to migrate somewhere else, which is where the…

Answered in another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26581857

Interesting thought thread on our pricing structure... It saves money if you intend to send the backup to 10x places every month. If you only intend to do it once though you don't …

I answered the sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26581857

It is a service you can sign up for https://crowdstorage.com/products/device-backup-my-cloud-hom... . Stay tuned for support on more devices in the future (i.e. synology, qnap, etc…