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Classic.
I started reading and I thought this was real. I've built one-way logging systems in the past, where the link to a logging computer was a one-way serial link, with physically no possibility of anything ever going back. This makes sense in network security.
At first glance I thought it was some sort of backup solution, where storing was very cheap, but restoring would be the pricey bit. As soon as I reached the Abacuses and 3,5" floppies I definately knew it was a fake :)
In a way this is a variation on a very old theme, here is the original:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1360704" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1360704</a>
Funny stuff! Looks like a response to Amazon's new offering:<p>"We are pleased to introduce a new storage option for Amazon S3 called Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) that enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy than the standard storage of Amazon S3."<p><a href="http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/05/19/announcing-amazon-s3-reduced-redundancy-storage/" rel="nofollow">http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/05/19/announc...</a>
this is awesome! i now have a GOOD cloud storage candidate for backups of my blu-ray movies that doesn't cost more than the cost of a new blu-ray disc.