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Maybe they are holding out that someone will purchase still? They lose all their value the second the archive team gets all their data right? Edit: On second t

Maybe they are holding out that someone will purchase still? They lose all their value the second the archive team gets all their data right? Edit: On second thought, I agree that it's probably related to the bandwidth cost.

click170 12y ago
Sneakernet could be a cost effective option especially for large volumes of data, and its often overlooked. I wonder if the Archive Team has considered sending twitpic a hard drive and asking them to just rsync the data over? Edit: This assumes that they keep backups of said data outside of EC2. Walking a hard drive over to your local Amazon DC.. won't quite work.
- toomuchtodo 12y ago
  Amazon will provide drives for their export feature. People have already offered to foot the bill to have it done.
- stevencorona 12y ago
  There are hundreds of TBs of data.
sp332 12y ago
It's not about cost. AT members and Dustin Curtis have offered to pay for it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8472998 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8472998 https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/523215681412546562 https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/523215681412546562
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  - sp332 12y ago
    True, but this isn't the first time AT has offered. It's not the first time Noah Everett has gone radio silent either.
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      - sp332 12y ago
        https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/512041630816555008 https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/512041630816555008 and https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/512040672527138816 https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/512040672527138816