Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers
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Re: Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers
#2I guess 8 exabytes doesn't get the same number of clicks
Edit: Not really trying to be facetious, but come on. Apple using a lot of storage at a lot of places isn't too surprising
Re: Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers
#3I guess 8 exabytes doesn't get the same number of clicks Edit: Not really trying to be facetious, but come on. Apple using a lot of storage at a lot of places isn't too surprising
Ironically, yes: I missed the M in the title, first thought was "isn't that a single hard drive?" and read the article to see why anyone cared.
If it was exabytes I doubt I would have looked.
Re: Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers
#4Apple and Google need to give people a chance to manage their own data.
Re: Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers
#5I guess 8 exabytes doesn't get the same number of clicks Edit: Not really trying to be facetious, but come on. Apple using a lot of storage at a lot of places isn't too surprising
Ironically, yes: I missed the M in the title, first thought was "isn't that a single hard drive?" and read the article to see why anyone cared. If it was exabytes I doubt I would have looked.
same here. seems misleading to use a not-as-appropriate unit. I navigated away and I was like.. wait 8TB.. I have more in my closet.
Re: Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers
#6I guess 8 exabytes doesn't get the same number of clicks Edit: Not really trying to be facetious, but come on. Apple using a lot of storage at a lot of places isn't too surprising
Are petabytes a unit people are familiar yet? 8000 petabytes might be more readable.
Re: Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers
#7Apple and Google need to give people a chance to manage their own data.
The files API on ios is open for anyone to use. You can run your own nextcloud server on your own hardware and it integrates in to the OS just like google drive or a plugged in USB would.
Re: Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers
#8All the data is encrypted so it doesn’t matter where they are storing it. Using multiple service providers (Google, Amazon, their own servers, etc) might actually be beneficial because it eliminates one point of failure, especially if they replicate data in a smart way to take advantage of it. It might also speed up access to data.
Re: Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers
#9How much would you pay to store such amount data?
8TB hard drive is about 200 dollars nowadays, so this amount of data is about 200m dollars worthy of retail hard drives.
Ofc the calculation is super inaccurate, which doesn't take redundancies into consideration, and discounted prices for someone like Google to purchase hardware, plus the discount for Apple as a big customer. But had the scale be comparable, in which case, Apple is paying Google billions per year to handle the data storage for itself, doesn't sound quite news worthy IMO, pretty price efficient even.
Edit: Previously stated 1.6B -> 200m
Re: Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers
#10It’s a bit of an open secret among big tech that Apple is a huge user of storage on all major clouds. They manage encryption on their hardware and in return get cheap storage, higher availability and competition from their suppliers. Highly doubt Google has access to any iCloud data other than an estimate of the immense size of the service.