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Re:ZFS: Use mirror vdevs, not RAIDZ by mulmen on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @11:55PM (#25369904)
Wow yeah I just did the math again and they are! Tarnsap is 10x S3 prices? I know the service does a lot but I thought it was a small margin on top of plain object storage.
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Re:ZFS: Use mirror vdevs, not RAIDZ by Dylan16807 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @01:51PM (#25376989)
It's hard to price a backup service per byte when all the value comes from software. At the small end there's barely any profit, and at the big end the costs get ridiculous.
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Re:ZFS: Use mirror vdevs, not RAIDZ by mulmen on Friday December 11, 2020 @02:55AM (#25383428)
Yeah I don’t begin to understand the economics. I was just surprised at the difference.

I naively thought storage is cheap so backups are too.

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