Discussion Comfy Café #14

Yeah, going fine. It entirely depends on your needs. It is good for storage and you can run apps on it too, so you could make a self hosted library of videos you could stream (full bitrate or encoded), you could download manga and have your own manga reader, make it like your own "cloud" upload service, etc. For you, I'd say it's probably only worth looking into if you had old hardware lying around and then picked up some cheap drives to throw in.

 

Yeah, plus, it's not like it's really a fool proof backup.

 

You know, I often think abuot, how the **** does google seemingly never lose any data.

 

I have to assume at this point they're running like all those 40tb SSDs or some shit. But I really have no idea. I would have to assume they would have to get them cheaper in some big deal. Like, do they also somehow have a backup of it? How many petabytes of storage must they have? It's actually insane if you think about it. The must back it up. I can't see them even running it with like 3 disks of redundancy per block without a back up. But yeah, idk, it's just wild if you think about it.

 

I think that is the case as well. But I'm not sure, because if you're downloaded a hundred gb+ a day at a few times, it does add up.

Yeah, I have no doubt google has top shelf workers doing their technical stuff.

Yeah, plus at minimum I assume they follow the 3 copies backup rule. So it's not just the data itself but copies of it. It's crazy.

 

I think AWS is probably larger than meta (at least I would assume) because a lot of business run on AWS (including twitch itself). But idk what Meta provides in terms of infrastructure excluding it's own services.

Yeah, it's just wild thinking about it. Like, just think of how much storage they need without backups. Then they probably have at minimum (likely more) 3 backups in 3 difference places. So it's 3x the storage realistically minimum. ******* wild.

 

Yeah. It could've come back at any time but they wanted to resolve the security issues. Idk why people thought it wouldn't ever come back.