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Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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The 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?

Blockchain would fit perfectly, since it is a write only technology. And you do get nice features at no cost like smart contract, NFTs...

Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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post #24

The API does not provide any means for deleting the uploaded data. Also, there is no durability guarantee. This service looks like a scam.

How do you figure? Looks pretty legit. Their storage imagery is a picture of multiple save icons... I mean, what else could they do to show how well they can store data?

Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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Fact 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.

Appears to be a joke? LOL

Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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I 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.

I was convinced that I was looking at a legitimate error message from IIS until I read it.

Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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A 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 click buy now, you get a "this resource can't be read" error.

"If you reached this page by clicking a link, try unclicking the link."

Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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/dev/null as a service? Webscale!

/dev/null may be unavailable, for example in lightweight chroot/containers without /dev. It requires extra effort and administration from our devops team. Furthermore, it's a hard-coded path and this is a well-known code smell. It's better to outsource it to a dedicated team with /dev/null expertise rather than re-inventing the wheel in-house.

Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't even use a blockchain, how can we trust it?

Blockchain would fit perfectly, since it is a write only technology. And you do get nice features at no cost like smart contract, NFTs...

Umm. The blockchain is WORM technology (kinda). You write once, but it can be ready by anyone.

This is a write-only resource…

Now, you could in theory store SHA hashes on a block chain to confirm that the files were written.

Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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I 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…

Given my own experience with 3.5" floppies in the past often yielded lifetimes in single digit months, I would say any estimate of years needs to have a very large error margin, and you need to use RAIF.
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