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>"A relatively small number of organizations in a few specific industries actually realize the full benefit of unlimited storage. " I love statements like the
by ROARosen 6y ago
>"A relatively small number of organizations in a few specific industries actually realize the full benefit of unlimited storage. "
I love statements like the above, coming from a Google spokesperson.
It basically implies "even though you are a customer but because you are small we don't care about your needs, even if it most customers like you don't utilize unlimited storage so it doesn't really cost us anything, but we want to make more money from you anyway".
- nojokes 6y ago> full benefit of unlimited storage I would like to know how would the full benefit of unlimited storage look like. When my write rate is somewhat less than Google is adding new storage then I am definitely not taking the full benefit. So how large can be the cap between these?
- Dylan16807 6y agoWell there is a 750GB per user per day limit for uploading, so maybe you have to be near that.
- googldrivetip 6y agoJust a tip, that limit is applied at the API level in a way that allows you to create limitless GCP Service Accounts and bypass that limit by manually granting them access to your Google Drive shares. I was able to upload ~6TB of data in about 2.5 days on a gigabit connection after discovering this.
- Dylan16807 6y agoYeah, I know, but I was talking about what it would take the get full use of what you're intended to use. Unless it was really urgent I don't think I'd ever try to pass that limit, even if I had a connection capable of it.
- res0nat0r 6y agoFrankly I'd love to have some type of Google/Dropbox VFS where I could store unlimited TB's of my movies connected to my kodi player and it would just transparently pull the file down like you can do with Dropbox Enterprise, vs. keeping my NAS backup in Glacier Deep Archive. The issue is it would cost 100+$/month to keep it in regular S3, and I'm sure Google is losing money on other folks importing TBs of data to their unlimited service unfortunately.
- Dylan16807 6y ago> The issue is it would cost 100+$/month to keep it in regular S3 Well $100 in S3 is $22 in B2. But that's still only about 4TB.
- res0nat0r 6y agoI need to backup ~25 TB, and still even with B2 that is $0.005 * 25,000 = $125.00. All near-realtime backup solutions IMO are too expensive at scale for a home user. The only thing I've found that is a good price is Glacier Deep Archive which is just $1.00/TB, but the only downside is you have to wait ~12-24 hours for a restore.
- thebean11 6y agoThe main downside to deep archive is the insane amount of money you will have to pay to get data out of it. They are not very transparent about how much it costs, the retrieval fees aren't bad but the egress fees are killer.
- res0nat0r 6y agoOh for sure, all egress at $0.09 is still frankly a rip-off and the one thing I do see AWS doing to keep people locked in. If this cheap storage class allowed for real-time reads I'd just store all my data on s3 and mount it via some kind of fuse filesystem and never restore it all for $5000, just stream on demand the movies / mp3s I randomly want to watch and would likely be cheaper in the long run than owning a big nas with hard drives.
- Nition 6y agoThe FULL benefit of unlimited storage is probably the whole world having free access to any form of media in one enormous shared archive, like an unlimited library of all things. Or maybe I'm not thinking big enough.
- kevincox 6y agoIf this was an honest statement I would expect "full benefit of unlimited storage" to mean using more than the new caps allow.
- throwaway2048 6y agoGoogle doesn't give a single shit about small operators, or individual in any other context, seems pretty par for the course for them.