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Re:Big Data Coming in Faster Than Biomedical Researchers Can... by IndianAstronaut on Thursday December 01, 2016 @12:47AM (#13077467)
I am surprised they don't use something like S3 to scale up the storage withouf buying hardware.
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Re:Big Data Coming in Faster Than Biomedical Researchers Can... by jerven on Thursday December 01, 2016 @10:31AM (#13079983)
From the perspective of the student S3 over university wifi is not "better" than local USB2 hard drives. It actually is a risk budget wise.
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