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Re:Building a 30 PB storage cluster in the heart of SF by tempest_ on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @02:27PM (#45441324)
The other thing the cloud does not let you do is make trade offs.

Sometimes you can afford not to have triple redundant 1000GB network or a simple single machine with raid may have acceptable down time.

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Re:Building a 30 PB storage cluster in the heart of SF by g413n on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @04:20PM (#45442935)
yeah this

it means that even after negotiating much better terms than baseline we run into the fact that cloud providers just have a higher cost basis for the more premium/general product.

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