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vitalysh | 8 years ago

I'm not even mad. /r/datahoarders brought this on themselves. Who in their right mind expects to upload 100s of TBs of data, encrypted and pay 59.99?

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ghughes|8 years ago

People who understand the literal meaning of the word "unlimited"?

vitalysh|8 years ago

Yes, Amazon is to blame here as well. They shouldn't have offered unlimited service.

At the same time, I don't get, why would you encrypt your "Linux ISO's"? Let the AWS dedup do its job, don't abuse it, and everyone is happy.

tgjsrkghruksd|8 years ago

@vitalysh

> At the same time, I don't get, why would you encrypt your "Linux ISO's"? Let the AWS dedup do its job, don't abuse it, and everyone is happy.

Because if you are a self-proclaimed data hoarder, do you have the time to sort through and selectively classify your hoard to "encrypt this ISO don't encrypt that tarball" on a file-by-file basis across many terabytes?

How much would be saved by deduping anyway? If they're not deliberately making it easy/redundant, even if you got 300TB down to 100TB or such, a single order-of-magnitude reduction doesn't fundamentally change the economics of "unlimited."

Blame data hoarders, but don't blame encryption.

oridecon|8 years ago

I hope this (and the many more examples) put a stop to this "unlimited" bs. You can't say people were abusing a service that throws that keyword for marketing reasons.

brandon272|8 years ago

That is very selective of them. While their marketing materials said "unlimited", people chose to ignore the ToS which stated that they wouldn't tolerate abuse and that abuse was basically whatever they determined it to be.

Kocrachon|8 years ago

One guy in particular admitted to having 1PB stored. People like him fucked the rest of us over.

PKop|8 years ago

Yes.. but them not having an upper limit doomed "the rest of you" from the beginning. Is anyone surprised some would do that? Is Amazon? Should they be? Of course not..

awirth|8 years ago

Source on the 1PB guy for the curious: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5s7q04/i_hit_a...

dawnerd|8 years ago

Looks like it's really the plex people to blame. They were hosting tons of TBs of pirated movies/tv shows.

thanksgiving|8 years ago