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Used Disks, No DR, not exactly a real shoot out.
by miniman1337 1y ago
Used Disks, No DR, not exactly a real shoot out.
- nee1r 1y agoTrue, though this is specifically for pretraining data (S3 wouldn't sell us used disk + no DR storage).
- p_ing 1y agoYou're in a seismically active part of the world. Will the venture last in a total loss scenario?
- nee1r 1y agoWe're currently 1/1 for the recent 4.3 magnitude earthquake (though if SF crumbles we might lose data)
- p_ing 1y ago4.3 is a baby quake. I'd hope that you'd be 1/1!
- antonkochubey 1y agoThey spent $300,000 on drives, with AWS they would have spent 4x that PER MONTH. They're already ahead of the cloud.
- p_ing 1y agoAWS/cloud doesn't factor into my question what so ever. Loss of equipment is one thing. Loss of all data is quite a different story.
- Sanzig 1y agoI do appreciate the scrappiness of your solution. Used drives for a storage cluster is like /r/homelab on steroids. And since it's pretraining data, I suppose data integrity isn't critical. Most venture-backed startups would have just paid the AWS or Cloudflare tax. I certainly hope your VCs appreciate how efficient you are being with their capital :)
- g413n 1y agoworth stressing that we literally could not afford pretraining without this, approx our entire seed round would go into cloud storage costs