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Re:Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journal... by ajross on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @12:36PM (#38630919)
Right, exactly. "He has 7 days or it would be wiped" is a threat, not a punishment. Was the data wiped or not? What are you willing to bet that we'll actually see a followup claiming the data was wiped? Almost certainly he's going to download the thing onto $3k of SSDs and get off the service, which is what everyone wants.
Re:Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journal... by calfuris on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:02PM (#38631412)
Moving 237.22 TB in 7 days requires ~3.14 Gbps of bandwidth, assuming that the clock starts ticking the moment that he actually starts moving data. In practice, the requirements would be even higher (subtracting out the time between notice being sent and read, plus time to actually set up alternative storage). Does Google even provide that level of read throughput to Google Drive customers?
Re:Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journal... by ajross on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @07:03PM (#38636048)
I have to repeat the question: do you genuinely believe this data is going to be inevitably deleted, or maybe do you think that the threat will work and the guy will get his stuff downloaded somehow?
Re:Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journal... by tremon on Thursday December 14, 2023 @08:01PM (#38649745)
Do you similarly think it's perfectly ok for a loanshark to "threaten" to smash the customer's knees if they don't pay up in 7 days? Because obviously they wouldn't really do that?