It had me up until the SOAP example!
Super Simple Storage Service
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#12Something about this being HTTP only makes it even better.
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#13This is pretty sketchy. No HTTPS and a fake example website called MothersInLawPhotos
Whoosh.
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#14I believe they have overestimated the cost of using 3.5" floppies, probably to make themselves look better by comparison.
They give the cost as $211,172, but that's the cost to buy a 1 TiB pack of floppies. Their own storage cost is per-month, so to get the equivalent cost for floppies you need to also divide by the expected useful lifetime of a floppy disk. I did a web search for "floppy disk lifetime" and the internet [1] told me "I’ve seen numbers saying the lifespan of floppy disks is three to five years. But I’ve also seen numbers that claim they can last ten to twenty years or even indefinitely."
If you assume floppy disks have an expected lifetime of 5 years, you can amortise the cost across that time, bringing the cost per TiB-month down to a nice reasonable $3,520.
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#15This is pretty sketchy. No HTTPS and a fake example website called MothersInLawPhotos
While it's not HTTPS it does at least appear to be monetized.
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#16THIS IS GOLD!, I love it, I event click the paypal link to see if you have some old school fake paypal payment gateway.
By the way the upload example form is broken, making it actually work would be awesome
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#17I'm guessing this is a competitor to S3 Glacier Deep Archive since you aren't meant to read from it. They don't seem to provide information on how you get your data out. Maybe they will mail your drives with your data?
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#18For other readers this seems to be a joke.
It absolutely is a joke for readers. It's write-only technology! ;)
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#19For other readers this seems to be a joke.
If you're looking for a bridge though, boy do I have an offer for you.
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#20I believe they have overestimated the cost of using 3.5" floppies, probably to make themselves look better by comparison. They give the cost as $211,172, but that's the cost to buy a 1 TiB pack of floppies. Their own storage cost is per-month, so to get the equivalent cost for floppies you need to also divide by the expected useful lifetime of a floppy disk. I did a web search for "floppy disk lifetime" and the inter…
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