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Isn't the price a little high? $10/TB/mo is the same as Dropbox, and this has a lot fewer features than Dropbox.
It's a bit apples to oranges comparison. Dropbox is a consumer product, like Google Drive. Nearline is targeted to app developers and enterprises
Isn't the price a little high? $10/TB/mo is the same as Dropbox, and this has a lot fewer features than Dropbox.
Isn't the price a little high? $10/TB/mo is the same as Dropbox, and this has a lot fewer features than Dropbox.
So how is this implemented? Spun-down disk drives?
My guess would be disk drives that are otherwise used for I/O intensive purposes, and where there's tons of unused/wasted space. 4MB/s is only around 4% of the bandwidth of a modern 1TB hard disk.
from the documentation: "You should expect 4 MB/s of throughput per TB of data stored as Nearline Storage. This throughput scales linearly with increased storage consumption."
That would mean that if you had about 1TB stored it would take more than 3 days to retrieve it (with an initial 3 second delay before it starts).
1c/GB/mo for data stored, ~3 seconds response times (cf. tape/Glacier at multiple hours), 11 9s durability, same API as Google Cloud Storage online. (edit: add /month)
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My guess would be disk drives that are otherwise used for I/O intensive purposes, and where there's tons of unused/wasted space. 4MB/s is only around 4% of the bandwidth of a modern 1TB hard disk.
Why would they want to risk the performance of the I/O intensive disks?
In 3s on one disk you can do roughly 5k seeks and read up to 300MB. They only need to do 1 seek and read 4MB.
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It's a bit apples to oranges comparison. Dropbox is a consumer product, like Google Drive. Nearline is targeted to app developers and enterprises
Exactly, so why would the lower-level service aimed at big slow transfers be more expensive than a full-featured product?
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It's a bit apples to oranges comparison. Dropbox is a consumer product, like Google Drive. Nearline is targeted to app developers and enterprises
Exactly, so why would the lower-level service aimed at big slow transfers be more expensive than a full-featured product?