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Re:Building a 30 PB storage cluster in the heart of SF by antonkochubey on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @12:12PM (#45439477)
They spent $300,000 on drives, with AWS they would have spent 4x that PER MONTH. They're already ahead of the cloud.
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Re:Building a 30 PB storage cluster in the heart of SF by p_ing on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @02:43PM (#45441553)
AWS/cloud doesn't factor into my question what so ever. Loss of equipment is one thing. Loss of all data is quite a different story.
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