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Yeah, I think it would be too expensive for Dropbox to truly encrypt the data. Because then decuplication would not be possible.
by petters 10y ago
Yeah, I think it would be too expensive for Dropbox to truly encrypt the data. Because then decuplication would not be possible.
- new299 10y agoIt would certainly be interesting to know how much space is saved through deduplication. However, my guess is that it's very unlikely to make the difference between a viable and a non-viable company. Particularly as they had a viable business when storing data on S3 [1]. I'd expect the cost savings of moving from S3 to their own hosted storage to be far greater than those earned through deduplication. [1] https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/ https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-ama...