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> Can this be reformulated Roughly, yes. > Also curious what are the stats from other providers. As to other providers, most are 6+ 9s that I’ve looked at, w

> Can this be reformulated Roughly, yes. > Also curious what are the stats from other providers. As to other providers, most are 6+ 9s that I’ve looked at, with many in the 8-9 range. Anything over 8 is (as they admitted) essentially marketing porn and not a useful metric (for reasons they mentioned as well as ones said by other comments here).

riku_iki 8y ago
And yet, no much complains about lost GMail letters in internet because of disc failures.. And GMail is likely stores much more than 10 trln objects and 100TB of data.
- sdmike1 8y ago
  I would be curious to see what the chance any given email is read and how much it drops off after the first reading. I would be willing to bet that out of 1000 people who receive a reasonable amount of mail you could probably find missing emails.
- brianwski 8y ago
  A number of years ago a Gmail "insider" that I know admitted they had lost customer emails and their policy (at that time at least) was to simply ignore it and not tell anybody because most customers never notice if it is a small number. I think a much bigger scandal is that all major laptop Operating System vendors (Microsoft and Apple) absolutely know when your laptop drive loses files or even is starting to go bad in some cases, and they NEVER tell the customer. I think an excellent product offering would be a 3rd party piece of software and cloud service which was a "verification service". It wouldn't store your files offsite, it would store the name, size, and SHA1 offsite and periodically check that no bits have been flipped on your local drive unless you intended it. For example, a week after I take a photo, I absolutely never want the photo to change. Ever. Same with music I (legally) download.
berns 8y ago
Azure: locally redundant storage: 99.999999999 % (11 9's) zone redundant storage: 99.9999999999 % (12 9's) geographically redundant storage: 99.99999999999999 % (16 9's) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/

riku_iki 8y ago

And yet, no much complains about lost GMail letters in internet because of disc failures.. And GMail is likely stores much more than 10 trln objects and 100TB of data.

sdmike1 8y ago
I would be curious to see what the chance any given email is read and how much it drops off after the first reading. I would be willing to bet that out of 1000 people who receive a reasonable amount of mail you could probably find missing emails.
brianwski 8y ago
A number of years ago a Gmail "insider" that I know admitted they had lost customer emails and their policy (at that time at least) was to simply ignore it and not tell anybody because most customers never notice if it is a small number. I think a much bigger scandal is that all major laptop Operating System vendors (Microsoft and Apple) absolutely know when your laptop drive loses files or even is starting to go bad in some cases, and they NEVER tell the customer. I think an excellent product offering would be a 3rd party piece of software and cloud service which was a "verification service". It wouldn't store your files offsite, it would store the name, size, and SHA1 offsite and periodically check that no bits have been flipped on your local drive unless you intended it. For example, a week after I take a photo, I absolutely never want the photo to change. Ever. Same with music I (legally) download.

berns 8y ago

Azure: locally redundant storage: 99.999999999 % (11 9's) zone redundant storage: 99.9999999999 % (12 9's) geographically redundant storage: 99.99999999999999 % (16 9's) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/