Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availability
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Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availability
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Re: Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availability
#2what happens after 6 months? and who needs 0.1 EB anyway?
Re: Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availability
#3It looks like an amount of space hard to fill with meaningful data. I wonder if they would prevent people from filling it with random junk just for fun.
Re: Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availability
#4It's basically impossible to upload this data in 6 months.
100 PB = 102400 TB = 104857600 GB = 107374182400 MB.
You have 365/2 * 24 * 3600 seconds in 6 months, that's 15768000 seconds.
So you need to upload ~7 GB/sec, that's 60 Gb/sec constant upload.
Re: Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availability
#5It's basically impossible to upload this data in 6 months. 100 PB = 102400 TB = 104857600 GB = 107374182400 MB. You have 365/2 * 24 * 3600 seconds in 6 months, that's 15768000 seconds. So you need to upload ~7 GB/sec, that's 60 Gb/sec constant upload.
Couldn't you generate data from within their data centres? 60Gb/s should be quite feasible. :)
Re: Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availability
#6From the details (in an image, some in fine print on the image) on the offer: that's if you migrate at least 1PB into Google Cloud Nearline in the first 3 months, and maintain at least 1PB in Google Clound Nearline for at least 12 months.
And its only 1 month free at that level of commitment; anything more than 1 month requires a migration commitment to more than the 1PB.
EDIT: At the time this comment was written, the thread title referred to the 100PB free for up to 6 months offer, not the fact that Nearline was now in GA. While the content of the comment is still true, the title that is being clarified by the comment is no longer present. (Similar things seem to be true of a number of the other top level comments.)
Re: Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availability
#7Very nice. We've been looking into this but the "beta" status kept us away.
So the bigger news here is Google Nearline Storage graduating to general availability.
Re: Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availability
#8It's basically impossible to upload this data in 6 months. 100 PB = 102400 TB = 104857600 GB = 107374182400 MB. You have 365/2 * 24 * 3600 seconds in 6 months, that's 15768000 seconds. So you need to upload ~7 GB/sec, that's 60 Gb/sec constant upload.
It's faster to snail mail it to the datacenter since while the data transfer method's latency is higher, the throughput is much larger.
Re: Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availability
#9It looks like an amount of space hard to fill with meaningful data. I wonder if they would prevent people from filling it with random junk just for fun.
The fact that the offer at its minimum level (which is only free for 1 month, its an "up to 6 months" free deal) requires a commitment to maintain at least 1PB in the system for 12 months (which means you are on the hook for paying for it for the non-free portion of that commitment period), is probably a constraint on sending in junk data just for fun.
As is the fact that you have to migrate the data from non-Google servers -- either your own or some other cloud provider -- to qualify, since you're going to pay for the sending the data, junk or otherwise, you are dumping into it.
Re: Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availability
#10It's basically impossible to upload this data in 6 months. 100 PB = 102400 TB = 104857600 GB = 107374182400 MB. You have 365/2 * 24 * 3600 seconds in 6 months, that's 15768000 seconds. So you need to upload ~7 GB/sec, that's 60 Gb/sec constant upload.
You can't upload this data from one place, but if you have lots of installations of something, each of which is independently generating a lot of data, it's feasible.