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Would tape storage, a la Amazon Glacier, be an efficient way to archive these, since they don't need to be accessed except with an offline process?
by btown 12y ago
Would tape storage, a la Amazon Glacier, be an efficient way to archive these, since they don't need to be accessed except with an offline process?
- saganus 12y agoI certainly would hope so. However I'm not sure who is going to survive the longest: an organization focused on that specific goal, or a company that might change focus or go bankrupt altogether. Even though AWS is a pretty big part of Amazon (I'm guesstimating here, might be wrong), I would hope the IA would last for longer or have specific strategies to address different catastrophic scenarios that would overall make it more efficient/safe than AWS.
- lightbritefight 12y agoI recall some article that said that AWS was about 3% of Amazons income, but it was basically pure profit.
- hueving 12y agoWell not pure profit because the servers cost money. The customer base is so large now that they have way more capacity than they would need for themselves. The matching of Google's prices when they released was a good indicator of how much was profit though.
- hobs 12y agoTape needs to be taken care of just like anything else via re-tensioning and the like. There is no write and forget media as far as I can tell. Ninja edit: That is not super price prohibitive.
- ForHackernews 12y ago> There is no write and forget media as far as I can tell. Sure there is, you just micro-engrave it onto a nickel disc with a laser... http://blog.longnow.org/02009/05/21/what-13500-pages-micro-etched-into-nickel-looks-like/ http://blog.longnow.org/02009/05/21/what-13500-pages-micro-e... Edit: Also paper. Low-acid paper in dry cabinets keeps a long, long time.