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It’s niche enough to be a major industry. Cold storage at extreme scales for very low cost is higher value than it appears - there’s a lot of data that isn’t w
by fnordpiglet 2y ago
It’s niche enough to be a major industry. Cold storage at extreme scales for very low cost is higher value than it appears - there’s a lot of data that isn’t worth very much individually but has extremely high value if it’s ever needed - but you can’t know ahead of time which data that is. That’s all about ultra low price per gb storage that’s high durable.
- curiousObject 2y agoThis idea adds a fast SSD cache to a slow access bulk archive. Obviously that cache can massively accelerate repeated access to the same data, and reduce tape wear and mechanical wear and energy usage. But I think the critical issue is where you want the cache to be. Because end point devices already have local cache. So this product only seems to have a big advantage on applications where you expect many unique users to access the same archive data for the first time, and within a short period of time before it expires from the tape drive’s SSD cache. This is why I think it’s a small niche. Maybe too small to be worthwhile. Edit: it also has the disadvantage that the first few devices to try to access the data would have a huge delay for a minute or more while the data is located on the tape. It’s also vulnerable to DDOS by attackers requesting random cold data, to fill the SSD.
- magicalhippo 2y agoGot me thinking if anyone tried something ala torrents for utilizing client-side caches to lighten the load on the server. If the alternative is slow storage, getting it from a different client on the LAN might be win.