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I particularly love Cloud Platform's Nearline storage for personal media archival. Previously I was using Amazon's Glacier, but the interface was clunky and the

I particularly love Cloud Platform's Nearline storage for personal media archival. Previously I was using Amazon's Glacier, but the interface was clunky and the load times were too slow. Cloud Platform's web UI, comparatively, has been an absolute joy to use at a roughly similar price point.

toomuchtodo 11y ago
Note that while Nearline's pricing is identical to glacier, it's response time is almost immediate, compared to ~4 hours for glacier.
- crazysim 11y ago
  The pricing is actually no longer identical. Amazon's latest price refreshes dropped Glacier to below Nearline and introduced a new S3 object type (e.g. Reduced Redundancy Storage) called Infrequent Access that's a lot more like Nearline.
  - sandstrom 11y ago
    I like the new Infrequent Access, but I'd like to understand the tradeoffs better. What's the downside compared to regular S3? It mentions 99.9% availability instead of 99.99%, but it would be useful to understand how that is manifested in reality, and what the underlying architectural difference is. I tried to ask jeffbarr here[1], but got no answer. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10230937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10230937
    - milesward 11y ago
      disclaimer: I am OP and work at GCP. Watch out for minimum file size on Standard-IA: it's 128kb, and if you write a file smaller than that they round up. It's little gotchas like this that can really burn you...
    - jeffbarr 11y ago
      Sorry I missed that, I have been working 16+ hours per day to get ready for re:Invent.
      - toomuchtodo 11y ago
        Please take a break when you can!
drdaeman 11y ago
I really don't know how they do this, but hubiC from OVH is order of magnitude cheaper. Works well for me with git-annex, fsck reports no data loss. (Not affiliated except for being a customer for 1.5 years.)

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I particularly love Cloud Platform's Nearline storage for personal media archival. Previously I was using Amazon's Glacier, but the interface was clunky and the

by benburton 11y ago

toomuchtodo 11y ago
Note that while Nearline's pricing is identical to glacier, it's response time is almost immediate, compared to ~4 hours for glacier.
- crazysim 11y ago
  The pricing is actually no longer identical. Amazon's latest price refreshes dropped Glacier to below Nearline and introduced a new S3 object type (e.g. Reduced Redundancy Storage) called Infrequent Access that's a lot more like Nearline.
  - sandstrom 11y ago
    I like the new Infrequent Access, but I'd like to understand the tradeoffs better. What's the downside compared to regular S3? It mentions 99.9% availability instead of 99.99%, but it would be useful to understand how that is manifested in reality, and what the underlying architectural difference is. I tried to ask jeffbarr here[1], but got no answer. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10230937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10230937
    - milesward 11y ago
      disclaimer: I am OP and work at GCP. Watch out for minimum file size on Standard-IA: it's 128kb, and if you write a file smaller than that they round up. It's little gotchas like this that can really burn you...
    - jeffbarr 11y ago
      Sorry I missed that, I have been working 16+ hours per day to get ready for re:Invent.
      - toomuchtodo 11y ago
        Please take a break when you can!
drdaeman 11y ago
I really don't know how they do this, but hubiC from OVH is order of magnitude cheaper. Works well for me with git-annex, fsck reports no data loss. (Not affiliated except for being a customer for 1.5 years.)