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I thought they already allowed you to mail in hard drives?
They did but you had to buy them yourself and most of the times you didn't have a use for them after. With snowball they manage the process end to end.
Say I wanted to do something similar, but move data around locally between two NAS appliances, but not incur a double disk charge - (i've got a pack of ~ 20 disks in NAS brand a, but i want to move to NAS brand b. The disks work in both, but need reformatting). Does anyone know of a service where I could rent a 20TB device like snowball but not push it to S3?
Edit: Correction, it doesn't appear to be an array, just single device so 1.5-2TB max. Also basically targeted at this SAN solution only.
I thought they already allowed you to mail in hard drives?
They did but you had to buy them yourself and most of the times you didn't have a use for them after. With snowball they manage the process end to end.
Edit: And yes this way it's easier for them as well and removes "missing power supplies" (big deal actually by I get the point..)
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His MicroSD card calculations are off because it would take a month to insert an airplane-load of those cards one by one into some computer to copy them into your storage. Which also makes me wonder why this Snowball device only does Ethernet. Seems like it should have an eSATA port.
Maybe it'll be a 10GbE interface?
EDIT: It appears it supports 10GbE natively. I assume it'll also support lower Ethernet speeds.
An AWS version of a sneakernet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
Say I wanted to do something similar, but move data around locally between two NAS appliances, but not incur a double disk charge - (i've got a pack of ~ 20 disks in NAS brand a, but i want to move to NAS brand b. The disks work in both, but need reformatting). Does anyone know of a service where I could rent a 20TB device like snowball but not push it to S3?
I know Dell has glorified portable harddrive arrays in pelican styles cases for moving data between their SAN systems. Unfortunately I don't recall the name and I don't know if they are available for rental. If you have a Dell VAR, have them ask the Dell storage group. Edit: Correction, it doesn't appear to be an array, just single device so 1.5-2TB max. Also basically targeted at this SAN solution only.
The e-ink display showing a shipping label is brilliant.
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Yep, all I could think was "Wow, that's a good deal fancier than a station wagon full of tapes". Cloud backup companies have had similar services for a while now, but it's nice to see AWS adopting it.
I have to admit, while it makes for good storage lock-in, I was impressed that they only charge 3 cents/GB to get the data back out. Someone else in this thread thought $1500 was expensive to get 50TB back out. If you use this for disaster recovery, you could get all of your data back onsite quickly for a very low (comparative) cost, versus trying to provision high speed connectivity.
As usual, the pricing is not very friendly, and apparently designed to lock your data into AWS or exploit your weak negotiating position once you buy in. While you can send in 50TB for $200, taking the same 50TB out costs an additional $1500 charge (50000 * 0.03). [assuming they are not transferring the data over the Internet, the cost to AWS should be the same or cheaper for reading]
As usual, the pricing is not very friendly, and apparently designed to lock your data into AWS or exploit your weak negotiating position once you buy in. While you can send in 50TB for $200, taking the same 50TB out costs an additional $1500 charge (50000 * 0.03). [assuming they are not transferring the data over the Internet, the cost to AWS should be the same or cheaper for reading]
Same service needs to run the other way for the same price. $200 to get all your data shipped to you on an appliance/hard drive.