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S4 - $12 for 1 year of 1 TB write-only storage
- mwerty 16y agoSurprised that the paypal link is real.
- jacquesm 16y agoWhy? It's the perfect product :)
- bprater 16y agoIf you can never get your data back out, how is it useful?!
- jacquesm 16y agoWell, if I think about all the files on my harddrive, I hardly read any of them on a given day anyway. If I work that out over the longer term there must be plenty of files that I'll never read again, but still keep lugging around with me. I could store those in S4, free up some space and re-use it for other files.
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- zemaj 16y agoI just paid for 1TB (really) :)
- catch23 16y agoprobably to pay for that upload-only bandwidth.
- jacquesm 16y agoThat's why I can beat their price, my api will have superior transfer speeds too. I will use my patented quantum-entangled /dev/null transport layer.
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- arethuza 16y agoI think my approach is better, no matter how big a file you want to store I only have to store the same amount of data... all I do is hash it first. Still working on the restore side of things, but that can't be too difficult, can it?
- jacquesm 16y agoIt's easy actually, the following code snippet will restore any file as long as you still have the hash: bignum i; for (i=0;i<MAXBIGNUM;i++) { if (hash(i) == filehash) { break; } } fprintf("%Bd",i);
- arethuza 16y agoThanks for the JavaScript!
- jacquesm 16y agoI really hope you're not serious, but on the off-chance that you are, bignum is not exactly a javascript data type and fprintf isn't a standard javascript function either. It was more of a pseudo code joke. If you weren't serious, congratulations ;)
- arethuza 16y agoWhat, you mean hashes don't won't like compression?
- euccastro 16y agoThey have a money back guarantee. E.g. in case you manage to read your data back.
- gmlk 16y agoLOLROTF
- greyman 16y agoMotherInLawPhotos.com - great case study. ;o)
- jacquesm 16y agoHm. April 1st was a while ago. If you consider buying, hit me up, I'll beat their prices whatever they ask for.
- stcredzero 16y agoCan you offer a transactional API?
- jacquesm 16y agoHehe, tricky guy :) Well, let's say that as long as we're talking about files and there is enough local free space I might be able to do that. But once committed that's it, no rollback past that point. Or I'd have to charge significantly more. We'll take this on a case-by-case basis.
- stcredzero 16y agoHmm, must be using a very optimistic locking strategy.
- Qz 16y agoThey check in, but they never ever check out.
- jacquesm 16y agoIt's the Hotel California of online storage.
- clemesha 16y agoAt the top of the page source: <!-- Ahh... I see you're a distingushing Internet user. You're really a "check under the hood" --> <!-- type of guy. I like that about you. I also like how you really told off that bully--> <!--at the Christmas party... you're such a stud. And have you lost weight? You're looking great.--> and at the bottom: <!-- You looked all the way down here?! Let's hump. --> Classic.
- jacquesm 16y agoanother gem: http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/error.html?aspxerrorpath=/secure/s4/API/documentation/SOAP/home.aspx http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/error.html?aspxerro...
- tdm911 16y agoi like: "Please contact us with any questions by e-mailing us at the address below. All complaints and feature requests will be immediately stored using our S4-backed user request database."
- stcredzero 16y agoThey should have an FAQ: Q: I can't read my data! A: Good!
- mrvir 16y agoNext FAQ item: Q: Do you use any file compression on the storage servers? A: Yes, we use unix compression program: rm -rf
- stcredzero 16y ago/dev/null already has built-in compression, capable of infinite compression ratios. It incorporates encryption which is probably equivalent to a One Time Pad.
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- JoachimSchipper 16y agoActually, not too useless for testing your outgoing bandwidth/latency.
- jwr 16y agoI started reading and I thought this was real. I've built one-way logging systems in the past, where the link to a logging computer was a one-way serial link, with physically no possibility of anything ever going back. This makes sense in network security.
- ynniv 16y agoI'm somewhat disappointed that it isn't. I can think of good reasons for a service in which data cannot be erased. If it could only be read on-site but written over the network, it might be advertised using copy similar to this page.
- Maro 16y agoGreat interview filter if you ask me.
- leftnode 16y agoBetter filter for recruiters if you unfortunately have to deal with them. Tell the recruiter you're looking for an applicant with S4 experience and see if you get any resumes back with it. If so, you know the recruiter is altering the resumes.
- stcredzero 16y agoAsk for 5 years experience, until 2015. Then ask for 10.
- fierarul 16y agoOr you could buy a licence for /dev/null which supports unlimited write-only storage. No internet required.
- stcredzero 16y agoSomeone should patent it!
- g__ 16y agoAnd it's extremely fast: $ pv /dev/zero > /dev/null 18.6GB 0:00:05 [3.76GB/s] [ <=> ]
- tsuraan 16y agoThe really amusing thing is that (at least on my machine) it's pv that's the bottleneck there; I have it using 101% cpu, anyhow. pv will give me 9.7GB/s, whereas dd will give me 13.3GB/s (also at 100% cpu). I wonder if anything's faster than dd :)
- jacquesm 16y ago> pv will give me 9.7GB/s Wow. What kind of hardware is your /dev/null ? Do you use striping ?
- MicahWedemeyer 16y agoI won't use anything that doesn't have 5-nines uptime guaranteed by an SLA. Until there's an enterprise-level solution for /dev/null, I think I'm going to have to stick with S4.
- tybris 16y agoI bet they use multiple /dev/null devices in RAID.
- someone_here 16y agoTheir performance must be insane.
- StarLite 16y agoAt first glance I thought it was some sort of backup solution, where storing was very cheap, but restoring would be the pricey bit. As soon as I reached the Abacuses and 3,5" floppies I definately knew it was a fake :)
- rapind 16y agoSame. I was even thinking: Genius! I almost never need to restore my backups. If I can backup cheaper but still with the peace of mind of knowing that if I do need to restore I just pay an extra fee. I wonder if there's a real business model there. Most of us restore an extremely small percentage of what we backup. Could you offer a cheaper storage cost than other businesses and make up the difference on the small number of restores that occur?
- alnayyir 16y agoNot really, all the cost is in storage and redundancy, the process of reading/writing/restoration is relatively negligible unless people are using it for media hosting like Amazon S3. If you're really that desperate for cheap backups, you'd actually be best off storing terabyte hard drives / SAN boxes around the country, maybe in colo'd buildings.
- lisper 16y agoI'm not at all sure that you're right about that. The dominant cost of keeping data on-line at the moment is the cost of the electricity to run the server and the air conditioning. If the number of drives in active use is a small proportion of the total number of drives then you might be able to achieve real savings by only having active drives actually on-line. There would be a lot of tricky issues (Where and how do you store the inactive drives? How do you swap them back in when needed? How do you insure data integrity for off-line drives?) but if you could solve those I think there might actually be a business there.
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- jacquesm 16y agoIn a way this is a variation on a very old theme, here is the original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1360704 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1360704
- ez77 16y agoNaive question: How do you recover the write-only data?
- uptown 16y agoYou just need to reverse the polarity.
- rbanffy 16y agoActually, it's a bit more complex than that. You would have to reverse the direction the read device travels through time and then read the write device when they intercept. Reversing the direction multiple times can make multiple reads at different states of the write device. Sounds feasible, if you have enough strange matter lying around.
- strick 16y agoFunny stuff! Looks like a response to Amazon's new offering: "We are pleased to introduce a new storage option for Amazon S3 called Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) that enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy than the standard storage of Amazon S3." http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/05/19/announcing-amazon-s3-reduced-redundancy-storage/ http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/05/19/announc...
- elblanco 16y ago"Key Scenarios - Customer complaint database" Hilarious. I know lots of companies that must use this service.
- darrenkopp 16y agothis is awesome! i now have a GOOD cloud storage candidate for backups of my blu-ray movies that doesn't cost more than the cost of a new blu-ray disc.