3 ms·Seek only works because the whole object gets downloaded into memory first.by dontlaugh 4y agoSeek only works because the whole object gets downloaded into memory first.rbanffy 4y agoEither that, or the Unix principle of many small files being better than a single big one (without the need to worry about inode exhaustion in S3).dontlaugh 4y agoS3 works best with a bunch of medium and similar sized files. It’s really not like a file system.RantyDave 4y agoRight. Big and slow kv.rbanffy 4y agoReminds me of tape-based storage like the Sinclair QL or Exatron's "stringy floppy". Or Mitsumi's QuickDisk, a format I saw on the Sharp MZ series which is not a disk, but a spiral track that looks a lot like a loop of tape running past RW heads.