Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan

Re:Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan by klodolph on Thursday June 08, 2017 @09:42AM (#14514092)

CrashPlan is "unlimited" but it's not a storage service, it's a backup service. From what I understand, you have to use their client software, and that software will use RAM proportional to the total size of the data you're storing. In practice this puts a hard limit on the amount of data which is proportional to the amount of RAM you have.

So heavy users are not only capped, they're also subsidized by the light users.

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Re:Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan by freeone3000 on Thursday June 08, 2017 @10:45AM (#14514528)

I've got about 12TB on Crashplan, and the client's never used more than about 2GB. I doubt your "cap" applies in practice.

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Re:Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan by nucleardog on Thursday June 08, 2017 @01:21PM (#14515600)

So about 170mb/TB if this scales linearly for some reason.

Some users were apparently bragging about having 1PB+ on ACD. That would mean the RAM usage would actually be a useful upper bound, as I doubt many of these guys have 170GB of RAM in their media server PCs.

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