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Re:Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL (2014) by Twirrim on Sunday January 15, 2017 @08:13PM (#13407605)
We used to joke among ourselves that actually it was done using vinyl records. Have you seen how many vinyl records you can fit into a single rack?

Added bonus, 9 out of 10 customers actually preferred the feel of their data when it is restored.

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Re:Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL (2014) by dwyerm on Monday January 16, 2017 @12:26PM (#13411371)
I liked the story that the truck-mounted Snowball came from Glacier tech. Amazon has been putting data on a truck and then driving it around Virginia. The delay in reading it back is the time it takes for the truck to arrive at a datacenter and plug in. :)
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