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Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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Post by zwirbl » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 9:11 AM UTC

MikeDelta wrote: post #141

jiggawatts wrote: post #123

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This suddenly reminded me of the floppy-disk raid: https://web.archive.org/web/20080117032102/http://phoenix.cc... You've got to wonder how it would work if taken to the extreme: rack after rack of floppy drives filling an entire data centre providing a glacially-slow S3 service. Can you imagine the noise ? It would be... glorious. The linked article used these compact drives: https://www.amazon.com/External-Floppy-1…

You can even make music with the sounds. On youtube there are various people doing this, like Paweł with his Floppotron. https://youtu.be/G-X-p0C0Uas

And pretty easy at that, just just put a PWM signal on the stepper pins (watch the voltage and current though, easily fries and MCU) and there you go

Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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Post by theginger » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 9:16 AM UTC

azornathogron wrote: post #14

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…

I think they've underestimated it. Hard to visualise 700,000 floppy disks but I have a feeling stored at home it would cost me 1 marriage.

Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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Post by richardfey » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 9:19 AM UTC

If you click the PayPal button you will find the description of the perfect procedure to unclick links.

Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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Post by textinterface » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 12:26 PM UTC

I clicked the Buy Now button. Good thing it didn't work, because a part of me was thinking about actually making a payment.

Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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Post by funstuff007 » Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 10:14 AM UTC

When the heck is R2 hitting general availability? In my mind it's on the verge of becoming vaporware. Although, it did have the nice side effect of increasing the amount of free egress from S3.

Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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Post by quickthrower2 » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 1:49 AM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #84

charcircuit wrote: post #73

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Is a hardcoded domain even better?

If you don't have access to /dev/null, then of course your security policy will give access to the internet. so, yes

To save on the ingress charges I use 0.0.0.0