Reminds of C14, which stores data in a nuclear fallout shelter, and takes a few minutes to retrieve. https://www.scaleway.com/en/c14-cold-storage/
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since we have multiple points of data for lifespan, perhaps we should be computing a weighted average between them? Going by gut feel: 3-5 years sounds like "pretty likely", let's give that 95% of the weight, at 4 years for simplicity. 10-20 years would be nice, but really, how much tech lasts that long? Not much. How about 4.9999999% at 15 years. And the remaining can go to "indefinitely", which seems pretty darn un…
You didn't take into account the heat death of the universe.
It won't be all that hot, so I don't really think the floppies are in any risk of melting because of it. Probably nothing to worry about.
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#103Built on mangodb? https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb
I think there are an almost infinite number of technologies that this could be based on.
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#104Evaluating this for a client, I’m unclear on how this works with PHI under HIPAA, do I still need a BAA? This comment started as a joke and now I’m genuinely thinking about it; also from the disk usage claims which make it clear they’re not storing the data, would a service like require a BAA? It’d have to be encrypted at rest, so assuming that was true, and assuming that the data actually got stored (presumably as c…
It's kind of Schrodinger's PHI. By the time you check to see if it exists, it definitely both does and does not but not provably so either way so... there, then.
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#106I 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…
Since this is a write-only service, it doesn't actually matter if the disk stops working, or even ceases to exist. Therefore we may be able to estimate the lifespan as infinite.
There may also be no need to purchase more than one disk. In fact taken to its logical conclusion there is no need to purchase any disk at all - but of course that brings us all the way to the S4 business model itself.
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#109This seems like a great service for the storages backend of an applicant tracking system!
Given that 98% of resumes don't need to be read, this seems like a sane default.
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#110I'm about to start S5 - update only DB.
Even less headache to manage and pricing is as low as $1/PB