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Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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Post by MikeDelta »

jiggawatts wrote: post #123
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…

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

Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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Post by oliwarner »

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…

But at 25kbps sustained write (inc optimistic disk juggling) it'd take 463 days to write 1TB. If that's your comparison number, you'd need to factor in 17 drives running in parallel to write 1tb in February. And a robot, or 6 people to handle disks. And 14m³ archive space.

And double all that if you want redundancy.

But the abacus beads could store rotational data. There's at least 8 bits of data there, more if you can put some time in. That's free real estate there.

Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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Post by pmontra »

keketi wrote: post #24

The API does not provide any means for deleting the uploaded data. Also, there is no durability guarantee. This service looks like a scam.

They could be storing to /dev/null. That's a very safe target, nobody can steal our data. Unfortunately it's technically not encrypted at rest.

Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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Post by baxtr »

forty wrote: post #144

I don't know why I would purchase this service, it looks like it could be easily replicated using a bunch of shell scripts...

You mean just like Dropbox is no real business because it’s just a bunch of shell scripts?

Re: Super Simple Storage Service

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Post by xapata »

julienlafond wrote: post #35

Fun to see that is was released at least 13 years ago, and the joke still works

If I recall, this was announced at a Meetup event. Halfway through, amidst the giggles, there was an awkward moment when the hosts realized some of the audience thought it was a real service.
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