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Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data (www.techdirt.com)

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[-] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 19 points 8 months ago

I'm not trying to blame him, but more than 200 TB of data on cloud storage? Holy cow, I wouldn't even trust it to store more than 5 GB of data.

[-] cyd@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If the company was run by a hallucinating AI it couldn't be any flakier.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Storing that much data on Wasabi would cost about $1,700/mo.

If it’s that important, rent a VPS, connect Rclone to Google Drive and Wasabi, and transfer.

Even 5 Gb/s would get it done in under 5 days and VPSes are usually faster than that.

I hope someone has already made this suggestion to him.

Edit: Forgot about the daily download limit.. ugh. What a pain in the ass.

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 13 points 8 months ago

AWS S3 would be about $3.2k/month, or do Glacier for about $250. I doubt any individual alone is touching 250TB worth of files, so deep freeze seems like a good option. Then mirror into a different region for 2x the price and peace of mind.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Retrieval times get tricky with Glacier though.

I’d hate to be working on a story, especially with a deadline (if he has those), and be forced to wait on Glacier to retrieve a file.

Hope it’s the one you need on the first try too…

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[-] yonerboner@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

I had this happen to me. They haven’t threated to delete my account yet. I have about 50TB. I built a 170TB (raw) NAS for $2000 and transferred it all, only took about a week or so to download everything on my gig fiber.

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[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 8 months ago

I'm surprised they even allowed that much to be uploaded. Even if it is "unlimited", that must be against some sort of fair usage agreement.

If you need to archive over 250TB of data, you should get a tape drive.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 20 points 8 months ago

Come on, if it's unlimited it's unlimited, not "unlimited but only if you use less than limit"

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[-] Laitinlok@lemmy.laitinlok.com 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/10/journalists-ask-doj-to-stop-treating-url-alterations-as-a-federal-crime/

Idk what you mean by unauthorised access to the video if you gain access to the password of the database or simply it wasn't password protected at all. Simply scrapping the site and reading html files or using the tools from the browser to scan the network connections to find the original footage is not hacking.

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 8 points 8 months ago

Where is crystal storage when you need it? 😢

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