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Super Simple Storage Service
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#22I'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?
Nah, that's why they're so cheap even compared to the competition. There is no read option. There's effectively no cost because there's no retrieval infrastructure!
(In case you completely missed it, this site is satire, similar to /dev/null-as-a-service, etc)
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#23Finally WOM-as-a-service.
http://www.rfcafe.com/miscellany/cool-products/images/signet...
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#24The API does not provide any means for deleting the uploaded data. Also, there is no durability guarantee. This service looks like a scam.
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#25I'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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#26I'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?
Maybe someone should to an Ask HN: what happens when you request your S3 glacier data. I use it, but frankly it seems more like a protection racket given the costs of getting anything out of there.
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#27I 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…
Their calculations for S3 is wrong too. If you use glacial deep archive storing a terabyte costs $0.99 per month.
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#28Jokes aside, I wiki'd this and there are a few interesting aspects of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_memory_(engineering...
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#29A really nice touch is the case study they use, which shows a nonexistent MothersInLawPhotos . com ( http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/MotherInLawPhotos.p... ) with all the images broken
If you look closely, you’ll see it’s not actually a page at all, but a screenshot of a page… with all the images broken. Top marks for the jokes within jokes and whoever put this all together. It’s definitely given me a really good chuckle tonight!
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#30Lots of opportunities for a write only storage service
> Key Scenarios: Customer complaint database Covert government document storage SETI@home output recorder Personal diary entries Unpublished manuscripts
> Case Studies MotherInLawPhotos.com