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Mail Your Hard Drive to Amazon
- princeverma 15y agoFor large data, I think it's much more convenient. On similar note : http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/09/09/us-safrica-pigeon-idUSTRE5885PM20090909 http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/09/09/us-safrica-pigeon-...
- eck 15y ago"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
- sjwright 15y agoTerrible ping times, though.
- Tanner 15y agoI'm reading Operating Systems: Design and Implementation by Tanenbaum right now. He's damned clever and turns what could easily be very dry material into something quite readable and occasionally very funny.
- billswift 15y agoOr, today, an express mail envelope full of DVD-Rs.
- qq66 15y agoWell, a station wagon full of 32GB MicroSD cards would be even better :)
- pbhjpbhj 15y agoIf you're going to say that then why not a juggernaut full of 32GB MicroSD cards.
- kylec 15y agoThere are several backup solutions (Arq, JungleDisk, etc) that will store your data on Amazon's S3 service. However, the restore process is fairly painful as it requires downloading potentially hundreds of GB which takes a long time. I'm aware of the hard drive service that Amazon offers, but AFAIK you're required to mail a drive to Amazon and they will put the data you want on it and mail it back. However, I've often thought that since Amazon also sells hard drives, they could skip a step and allow someone to purchase the disk, have Amazon can put the data on it, and mail it to the buyer. For people replacing a failed hard drive, it's likely that they will buy one from Amazon anyway, and this would save them a lot of time.
- RyanKearney 15y agoI'm sure if you contacted them first you can set the HDD to ship right to Amazon and they'll load it up and send it to your home address.
- veyron 15y agoOld news. This has been in place for years.
- RyanKearney 15y agoWrong, it has been in place for S3. This applies to EBS volumes. Please read the article before you comment.
- drivebyacct2 15y agoNot to be snarky in any regard, but what is a use case for needing to upload an enormous EBS image? Like for some sort of non-deterministic data processing where you already have a large set of data to process?
- statictype 15y agoIf you're switching your app's hosting over to EC2 and want to transfer your hundreds of gigs of database files, this may be the easiest way to do it. Also, I suspect the exporting data (for keeping physical backups) may be the more common use case.
- andreyon 15y agoUseful for companies, expensive for regular users