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> Last year, we rolled out a new service that changed how data is placed across Magic Pocket. The change reduced write amplification for background writes, so each write triggered fewer backend storage operations. But it also had an unintended side effect: fragmentation increased, pushing storage overhead higher. Most of that growth came from a small number of severely under-filled volumes that consumed a disproporti…
Google recently increased storage from 2 TB to 5 TB on their $20 AI plan, while Dropbox is still stuck at 2 or 3 TB for their $12/$20 plans. They moved from 1 TB to 2 TB in mid-2019, and I wonder if they ever plan to pass on any of the gains from the past seven years of technological advancements, or if those gains are simply being captured on their side while we keep paying the same.
I’m already paying 20 Euro per month. Leave me alone.
Good riddance.
Does Amazon ever publish similar articles about S3?
Secondly, I think that a lot of companies publish these "tech blogs" as a way to boost recruiting (look at the cool stuff that we're doing, don't you want to join us?). Amazon, of course, doesn't have a recruiting problem. If you want to work on the largest-scale systems, it's already a top destination for you.
Google recently increased storage from 2 TB to 5 TB on their $20 AI plan, while Dropbox is still stuck at 2 or 3 TB for their $12/$20 plans. They moved from 1 TB to 2 TB in mid-2019, and I wonder if they ever plan to pass on any of the gains from the past seven years of technological advancements, or if those gains are simply being captured on their side while we keep paying the same.
are these "technological advancements" in storage in the room with us right now? because I'm looking at today's price per TB and it's higher than it was in 2020
I wish Dropbox would make some kind of “classic edition” that removed annoyances from their desktop client.
Until then, I’m using Filen. It’s fine, I have some qualms with it but it runs on every platform including Linux, it’s affordable, and end to end encrypted.
The immutability of extents is dictated by their SMR hardware, I believe.
I don't know the full picture behind their decision-making but immutability is much easier to reason about in a distributed system, in general.
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are these "technological advancements" in storage in the room with us right now? because I'm looking at today's price per TB and it's higher than it was in 2020
did you calculate it with real inflation adjusted price? not the BS numbers in financial media, FED etc. Since 2020 unlimited printer, inflation is not few %.
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did you calculate it with real inflation adjusted price? not the BS numbers in financial media, FED etc. Since 2020 unlimited printer, inflation is not few %.
What authoritative number did you have in mind, oh economic sage?
The immutability of extents is dictated by their SMR hardware, I believe.