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Not nearly as uncommon as you’d think. Bigcos have all sorts of data requirements. One of my first jobs involved pulling tapes from libraries and sending them o
by temp0826 6y ago
Not nearly as uncommon as you’d think. Bigcos have all sorts of data requirements. One of my first jobs involved pulling tapes from libraries and sending them off to Iron Mountain every day (and on occasion retrieving and restoring from said tapes).
On the biggest end, you have folks like AWS glacier with an absurd amount of homemade libraries (and generally no tapes stored on/off-site outside of libraries)
- ghaff 6y agoI thought the consensus was that Glacier uses cold storage disk drives. It was speculated early on that Glacier was tape but AFAIK that was never confirmed and there's no published evidence that's actually the case.
- awiesenhofer 6y agoI always liked the rumors about it being huge BDXL libraries best. For example this HN entry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7647571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7647571 IIRC Facebook actually built something similar for their cold storage.
- ghaff 6y agoI find it a bit surprising that AWS has been able to keep this such a secret, especially given that I would have imagined that big enterprise users would presumably want to know what Glacier actually is before depending on it.
- twistedpair 6y agoNDAs are wonderful things.
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- pacaro 6y agoI've never seen compelling evidence that Glacier isn't just a different API and pricing policy on top of S3
- kondro 6y ago$0.99/TB replicated with Cold Storage seems pretty compelling to me.