Their API has response messages (!). So much for a write-only service. Not quite as secure as advertised. I'm disappointed.
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#33The API does not provide any means for deleting the uploaded data. Also, there is no durability guarantee. This service looks like a scam.
oh wow really?
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#34I tried to access this but I got a 418 error. I don’t even own a teapot.
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#35Fun to see that is was released at least 13 years ago, and the joke still works
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#36I 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…
Since we have multiple points of data for lifespan, perhaps we should be computing a weighted average between them?
Going by gut feel: 3-5 years sounds like "pretty likely", let's give that 95% of the weight, at 4 years for simplicity. 10-20 years would be nice, but really, how much tech lasts that long? Not much. How about 4.9999999% at 15 years. And the remaining can go to "indefinitely", which seems pretty darn unlikely, so it has 0.0000001% weight.
(4*95+15*4.9999999+∞*0.0000001 / 100) = ∞
I guess we can ignore the monthly cost ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I applied weights to things, so this is Bayesian, and we all know that's always right.
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#37Fact check: The cost of S3 standard storage per TB is approximately $23 not $153.
S3 standard storage, the most expensive kind, is $.021-.023 per GB.
S4 costs about the same as S3 Deep Archive storage.
Update: The article appears to be a joke. That aside, there are no cost savings against S3 Deep Archive; additionally S3 Deep Archive supports restores unlike the write-only S4.
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#38The API does not provide any means for deleting the uploaded data. Also, there is no durability guarantee. This service looks like a scam.
> S4's state-of-the-art write-only interface removes the headaches commonly associated with reading data.
Durability is one of the headaches you can ignore with a write only interface.
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#39The API does not provide any means for deleting the uploaded data. Also, there is no durability guarantee. This service looks like a scam.
It doesn't even use a blockchain, how can we trust it?
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#40I loved the error message:
The resource cannot be read
The resource you are trying to access cannot be read, due to the following reason:
No read operation available.