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1 GiB? That's nothing. I just finished reformatting 280 GiB of Google Takeout data from .tgz format into a 130 GiB SquashFS filesystem (both for space reasons a
by nybble41 5y ago
1 GiB? That's nothing. I just finished reformatting 280 GiB of Google Takeout data from .tgz format into a 130 GiB SquashFS filesystem (both for space reasons and to allow efficient random access). It would have been nice to be able to do that on the server without downloading 150 GB of extra data first, plus another 30+ GiB because one of the downloads failed partway through and couldn't be resumed due to the download URLs having very short expiration times relative to the file sizes. Apparently 180 GiB of data transfer and 150 GiB of storage doesn't register as worthy of optimization for Google, but it's quite a bit for your typical home user.
- Seirdy 5y agoI'd imagine that the inconvenience of handling takeout data is beneficial for Google's business interests, so there isn't a big incentive to improve the situation.
- nybble41 5y agoHow many other services make it relatively painless to download all your data in one place? Or at all, for that matter? For me, the existence of Google Takeout is definitely a selling point when comparing their services to the competition. There is room for improvement, and perhaps some conflicting interests are at work behind the scenes, but I wouldn't say they go out of their way to make the process inconvenient.
- Seirdy 5y agoI'm not saying that they go out of their way to make it inconvenient; I'm saying that making it more convenient is probably not going to give them an ROI of any sort .