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Most of the savings seemed to come from freeing up enough headroom in each drive to prevent block collating slowdowns on write. This smells like a temporary wo
by jandrese 5y ago
Most of the savings seemed to come from freeing up enough headroom in each drive to prevent block collating slowdowns on write. This smells like a temporary workaround to me, as data tends to grow over time.
It probably saved them from having to buy more storage this quarter, but it is a one time savings.
- turbocon 5y agoTo the contrary! This decreases their storage need by ~20% which will increase their cost savings over time. Yes they pushed off increasing their storage footprint in the short term but in the long term they decreased their rate of total storage increase.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoIt saves them on number of drives. Of course they can always buy more drive capacity on AWS if a certain percentage of their drive pools starts to hit 80% capacity, it's not a one time savings unless AWS stops charging them and lets them use their services for free. It would be a recurring savings.