• A Redditor Archived Almost 2 Petabytes of Porn to Test Amazon’s ‘Unlimited’ Cloud Storage
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[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52613445]You could argue that this isn't really how any service works, overprovisioning and whatnot is required for so many things. Your ISP can't really guarantee you your peak speed at all times, VPS providers don't guarantee perfect bandwidth/resources, and even all-you-can-eat restaurants have been known to throw people out. But amazon didn't even have limits, they just decided it wasn't worth supporting anymore and terminated it for everybody.[/QUOTE] While I understand that things can't always be peak speeds all the time lets be honest here ISP's don't try to even come close. But if a company promises literally unlimited of something they better be prepared for someone to break the bank.
[QUOTE=chuck14;52615287]Sorry, I was rushing a bit with the analogy. I guess an easier way to put it, is that the teacher used to let kids have freedom with recess- stay out as much as you want, come back in when you're ready to learn again. But johnny decides, "hah, I'm going to stay out all day". After doing this, the teacher shortens recess to one hour, even though some kids took longer without being all day. This isn't exactly a "punishment" but a preventative action to avoid other kids following in johnny's footsteps now that they know they can push the limits. I guess to the people who lost their unlimited plans it seems like a punishment, even if they didn't use all of it like this idiot, but it was honestly an issue just waiting to happen, and someone was going to feel left out no matter where they put the new cap. What I'm trying to say (really badly), is it isn't punishing people, it's protecting themselves in an environment where there are going to be plenty of morons that follow "monkey see, monkey do". storage isn't exactly cheap, and waiting for people to hit some cap manually, then checking to see what they have etc. is going to cost amazon more than it's worth.[/QUOTE] Ah I see, that's a fair point. [QUOTE=chuck14;52615287]To your second point, I agree you don't have to like it personally, but i think most "unlimited" things are fine for average consumers. If you don't push it to the limit as hard as possible, you're generally given ample notice that you should cut back a bit (companies don't really want to lose customers by just cutting people off the service). I think for the average person,being told all sorts of limits can be stressful, especially with the tech illiterate. Of course, there are predatory ways of doing this, but amazon was pretty good with the unspoken agreement- don't overload our servers with useless garbage, and you don't have to worry about overage fees and whatnot or have to carefully manage your uploads and pricing plans. But no, I don't disagree with you on your view. In a more educated world (and one where companies didnt use every loophole possible), everyone'd say exxactly what you're getting upfront.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I think it'd be better advertise a specific number of storage space that would align to Amazon's business model than to say that it's unlimited. One way to put the tech illiterate at ease is to offer examples of how much can be stored with the space provided (e.g. tens of videos, hundreds of photos, thousands of songs, etc.). Or to even have unlimited space for a type of data (e.g. photos, I think they already do this?) and then limited for the rest of the data. Alternatively they could throttle the customer's upload speed past X usage for a duration of time to prevent excessive usage, but, I digress...
[QUOTE=loopoo;52612916]I find this annoying cause it's so much space occupied by pointless bullshit. if someone was hitting 1 petabyte of data for legitimate files, I'd be alright with it. but download shit tonnes of porn just for the sake of trying to see if Amazon holds true to their word? what average consumer would ever even hit close to 1 petabyte, jesus[/QUOTE] Just think of it as a dataset to train a porn ai.
[QUOTE=duckmaster;52615398]While I understand that things can't always be peak speeds all the time lets be honest here ISP's don't try to even come close. But if a company promises literally unlimited of something they better be prepared for someone to break the bank.[/QUOTE]Hence why he's an asshole. And there are ways of dealing with it too, such as throttling at soft caps. It's still unlimited for most practical users, but it stops automated scripts from dumping hundreds of terabytes onto the service.
I wonder how many hours of porn that is
[QUOTE=FingerSpazem;52616321]I wonder how many hours of porn that is[/QUOTE] [quote]How long would it take one to consume 1.8 petabytes of porn? 1.8 petabytes is about 23.4 years of HD-TV video, but webcam streams are nowhere near that quality. A few good folks crunched the numbers: 720p is about two gigabytes per hour, and at 900,000 hours, that's 102 years of straight calendar time. If the videos are even lower quality, say, 480p, that's around 0.7 gigabytes per hour, or 293 years and six months. Better get to watching.[/quote] :fap:
Well, since it's mostly camgirl stuff, it's not even that interesting. And entirely non-cataloged. Does though, show the fact that it's a large industry.
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52613445]You could argue that this isn't really how any service works, overprovisioning and whatnot is required for so many things. Your ISP can't really guarantee you your peak speed at all times, VPS providers don't guarantee perfect bandwidth/resources, and even all-you-can-eat restaurants have been known to throw people out. But amazon didn't even have limits, they just decided it wasn't worth supporting anymore and terminated it for everybody.[/QUOTE] I kinda see what you're saying but in the end it was amazons decision to limit their service to 1tb. They could have made it one petabyte which would be practically unlimited for most users today.
[QUOTE=CapsAdmin;52617991]I kinda see what you're saying but in the end it was amazons decision to limit their service to 1tb. They could have made it one petabyte which would be practically unlimited for most users today.[/QUOTE] Yeah, that was a pretty harsh change. They've basically made google drive, dropbox, and hell, even self-hosting or amazon s3 into much better deals. For reference, google drive gives you 1 tb per 10 dollars.
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52618011]Yeah, that was a pretty harsh change. They've basically made google drive, dropbox, and hell, even self-hosting or amazon s3 into much better deals. For reference, google drive gives you 1 tb per 10 dollars.[/QUOTE] Google Drive gives you unlimited for $10 / month or your regional equivalent. 1TB is $5 / month or your regional equivalent.
[QUOTE=helifreak;52618053]Google Drive gives you unlimited for $10 / month or your regional equivalent. 1TB is $5 / month or your regional equivalent.[/QUOTE] [URL]https://www.google.com/drive/pricing/[/URL] ? Doing a little research, it seems like they used to offer it. If you have it it might be because you're on an old plan, and that they left those untouched. There's even people selling those accounts on eBay.
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52618062][URL]https://www.google.com/drive/pricing/[/URL] ? Doing a little research, it seems like they used to offer it. If you have it it might be because you're on an old plan, and that they left those untouched. There's even people selling those accounts on eBay.[/QUOTE] [url]https://gsuite.google.com/[/url] [editline]27th August 2017[/editline] The "under 5 users is 1TB" thing isn't actually a thing.
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52618011]Yeah, that was a pretty harsh change. They've basically made google drive, dropbox, and hell, even self-hosting or amazon s3 into much better deals. For reference, google drive gives you 1 tb per 10 dollars.[/QUOTE] Maybe the entire business strat was to get people hooked, then cut off their unlimited so they'd have to pay... This is Amazon afterall.
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52618062][URL]https://www.google.com/drive/pricing/[/URL] ? Doing a little research, it seems like they used to offer it. If you have it it might be because you're on an old plan, and that they left those untouched. There's even people selling those accounts on eBay.[/QUOTE] As helifreak said, that's unenforced. [t]http://i.imgur.com/2BXkvVd.png[/t] If you mount it it shows up at 10.2 TB but people have more than that, the size just goes up.
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