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Calling S3 and (single-datacenter!) B2 “nearly equally reliable” with a footnote that “science is hard” strikes me as... unprofessional.

• bluedino 7y ago
  Have there been any B2 outages, or at least publicized ones? These are just backups, afterall.
  • Johnny555 7y ago
    These are just backups, afterall. B2 isn't "just backups", it's meant as on-demand storage like S3. But durability is important for backups too. Have there been any B2 outages, or at least publicized ones? I hope companies don't base storage infrastructure decisions on anecdotal evidence. Yes, science is hard, so coming up with realistic data durability numbers is also hard, but I'd expect a little more rigor than "Science is hard, blue keys on calculators are tricky, and we don’t have years to study things before doing them". If a storage provider doesn't have years to study their own durability guarantees, who does? They claim: The Vault architecture is designed for 99.999999999% (11 x 9s) annual durability. But does this number include the chance of all of the Vaults in the datacenter baking in the heat after a lightning induced power failure knocks out cooling?
    • bluedino 7y ago
      Nodecraft is using B2 to store their customers game backups.
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