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imagine using Dropbox with those storage requirements...

refulgentis 5y ago
The "imagine $X" construct has colloquially grown to mean "$X is irrational", which is strange to me here - the lack of binary diffing means if you change a single bit of your video editing project, the whole thing gets synced to the cloud. Dropbox is a common solution for small business VCS that's not VCS, I've seen it used for born exactly that way a half dozen times the past decade.
- arthurcolle 5y ago
  I just think that Dropbox is an inappropriate file storage mechanism (especially for heavy artifacts being generated locally) for someone moving that much stuff in and out of a long term storage system, especially at those levels. I'm not someone that generates 500GB of CAD artifacts a day, or anything even remotely similar, but I ingest about 15GB of global market data and news a day and I laughed a little bit reading your response (I understand how you were responding to GP, and your response makes sense) because its just nonsensical to use consumer focused products for anything serious. Just because I slap on a "business tier" sticker on a water bottle doesn't mean the water bottle is better equipped at solving enterprise needs.
- kalleboo 5y ago
  > the lack of binary diffing means if you change a single bit of your video editing project, the whole thing gets synced to the cloud I know someone using Dropbox for video editing, they've been using the Synology Dropbox client which also uses the API. It hasn't been a problem. The large video files (tens or hundreds of GB) are ingested once and never edited, the only edits to files are the small project files (megabytes), and some graphics files (hundreds of megabytes). Re-exports of rendered video causes the whole file to change anyway due to the nature of video compression so binary diff doesn't help there anyway.
kalleboo 5y ago
I know someone with a 60 TB Dropbox...
manigandham 5y ago
How is this any different than storing data in S3? Companies have petabytes in the cloud now. If their networking supports their usage then Dropbox is a good solution given all the features it provides.

The "imagine $X" construct has colloquially grown to mean "$X is irrational", which is strange to me here - the lack of binary diffing means if you change a single bit of your video editing project, the whole thing gets synced to the cloud. Dropbox is a common solution for small business VCS that's not VCS, I've seen it used for born exactly that way a half dozen times the past decade.

arthurcolle 5y ago
I just think that Dropbox is an inappropriate file storage mechanism (especially for heavy artifacts being generated locally) for someone moving that much stuff in and out of a long term storage system, especially at those levels. I'm not someone that generates 500GB of CAD artifacts a day, or anything even remotely similar, but I ingest about 15GB of global market data and news a day and I laughed a little bit reading your response (I understand how you were responding to GP, and your response makes sense) because its just nonsensical to use consumer focused products for anything serious. Just because I slap on a "business tier" sticker on a water bottle doesn't mean the water bottle is better equipped at solving enterprise needs.
kalleboo 5y ago
> the lack of binary diffing means if you change a single bit of your video editing project, the whole thing gets synced to the cloud I know someone using Dropbox for video editing, they've been using the Synology Dropbox client which also uses the API. It hasn't been a problem. The large video files (tens or hundreds of GB) are ingested once and never edited, the only edits to files are the small project files (megabytes), and some graphics files (hundreds of megabytes). Re-exports of rendered video causes the whole file to change anyway due to the nature of video compression so binary diff doesn't help there anyway.

kalleboo 5y ago

I know someone with a 60 TB Dropbox...

manigandham 5y ago

How is this any different than storing data in S3? Companies have petabytes in the cloud now. If their networking supports their usage then Dropbox is a good solution given all the features it provides.