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Of course Google Drive is not a surprise to DropBox but I still feel that a 'One does not simply counter Google' Meme could be appropriate here.
by SODaniel 14y ago
Of course Google Drive is not a surprise to DropBox but I still feel that a 'One does not simply counter Google' Meme could be appropriate here.
- thpoul 14y agoDrew Houston has an amazing sense of humor. https://twitter.com/#!/drewhouston/status/194837482490179584 https://twitter.com/#!/drewhouston/status/194837482490179584
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- EREFUNDO 14y agohaha.....love that guy!
- redthrowaway 14y agoSome of the responses are downright depressing: Vijay Vasu @gunshotdigital @drewhouston @Dropbox huh what? will people be able to search my files!!! #NOTCOOL
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- kruipen 14y agodropbox presumably pays for s3 slightly less or slightly more (depending on redundancy level) than goog end user price: Over 5000 TB / month $0.055 per GB $0.037 per GB
- sakai 14y agoWell, they're doing pretty heavy de-duping, but point well taken.
- rdl 14y agoThe de-duping is certainly more than the discount off list price, too -- I suspect they de-dupe 10-100x. I really doubt their discount off the lowest public S3 volume price is more than 50%.
- tlb 14y agoPersonal photos take up a large fraction of people's cloud storage, and they are completely non-de-dupable. I doubt it's possible to get more than 3x on average.
- josscrowcroft 14y ago[citation needed]
- apu 14y agoFor which part? That photos take most of the space? Or that they're virtually un-de-dupable? I'm fairly sure about the former (having seen some private numbers that I'm not allowed to share) -- although you can think through it yourself. What other kind of data is as easily and commonly produced as photos/videos and takes up so much space? The latter is definitely true since it's a hard research problem that I've spent some time thinking about myself. There are approaches to lossy-de-duplication of photos that can achieve some significant savings, but the quality loss is too great to be useful at the moment.
- andyking 14y agoWhat a fascinating problem, especially when it comes to personal photos that aren't really that 'personal.' A thousand people will all visit Paris today, and all take a picture of the Eiffel Tower, and all upload said picture to their favourite cloud storage platform. Is there any reason why we need a thousand, ever so slightly different, pictures of the Eiffel Tower from one day in April, stored in the cloud for eternity? Would people even notice if their images were quietly 'de-duplicated'?
- encoderer 14y agoAWS rates are all negotiable, and large users always negotiate. Doesn't mean you're far off, but that's a point worth considering.