I believe they have overestimated the cost of using 3.5" floppies, probably to make themselves look better by comparison.<p>They give the cost as $211,172, but that's the cost to buy a 1 TiB pack of floppies. Their own storage cost is per-month, so to get the equivalent cost for floppies you need to also divide by the expected useful lifetime of a floppy disk. I did a web search for "floppy disk lifetime" and the internet [1] told me "I’ve seen numbers saying the lifespan of floppy disks is three to five years. But I’ve also seen numbers that claim they can last ten to twenty years or even indefinitely."<p>If you assume floppy disks have an expected lifetime of 5 years, you can amortise the cost across that time, bringing the cost per TiB-month down to a nice reasonable $3,520.<p>[1] <a href="https://blog.storagecraft.com/data-storage-lifespan/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.storagecraft.com/data-storage-lifespan/</a>
A really nice touch is the case study they use, which shows a nonexistent MothersInLawPhotos . com
(<a href="http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/MotherInLawPhotos.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/MotherInLawPhotos.p...</a>) with all the images broken
Built on mangodb?<p><a href="https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb</a>
<i>> Imagine the convenience of enabling your customers to open help tickets, provide feedback, add feature requests directly to your shared, read-proof store. </i><p>Reliably deployed in production for many years at all Fortune 500s!
Lol. This is hilarious. I haven't laughed this much for ages, this had me laughing like the whole time I was reading it. Abacii and the scale transition in the graph y axis... Hahaha<p>Tho seriously the lack of a an IaC option means that's a hard no from me. If I can't self-host this on an on-promise open source deployment, they're just making money of people too lazy to set this up themselves with rsync and bash scripts.
I loved the error message:<p>The resource cannot be read<p>The resource you are trying to access cannot be read, due to the following reason:<p>No read operation available.
"Consuming S4 is a snap with advanced integration options. Upload directly from our website, send an email, tweet your content, or simply yell in an empty room."<p>Lol... yell in an empty room.
Lots of opportunities for a write only storage service<p>> Key Scenarios:
Customer complaint database
Covert government document storage
SETI@home output recorder
Personal diary entries
Unpublished manuscripts<p>> Case Studies
MotherInLawPhotos.com
Jokes aside, I wiki'd this and there are a few interesting aspects of this:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_memory_(engineering)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_memory_(engineering...</a>
It is all hosted in S3
when you click to buy it takes you here<p><a href="http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/payments/submit/s4/is/a/joke/stop/sending/us/money/readthefineprint.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/payments/submit/s4/...</a><p>Which is actually a custom 403 page made to look like an old IIS error page. if you put in any url on the domain where the file does not exist you get the same error eg<p><a href="http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/blah" rel="nofollow">http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/blah</a>
1. "<i>S4's state-of-the-art write-only interface removes the headaches commonly associated with reading data.</i>"<p>2. Click the buy buttons and then read carefully.<p>Super Simple <i>Storage</i> Service, huh.<p>Opinion: This was posted ~10 days late.
Evaluating this for a client, I’m unclear on how this works with PHI under HIPAA, do I still need a BAA?<p>This comment started as a joke and now I’m genuinely thinking about it; also from the disk usage claims which make it clear they’re not storing the data, would a service like require a BAA? It’d have to be encrypted at rest, so assuming that was true, and assuming that the data actually got stored (presumably as cold storage) I’m thinking it’d still require BAAs…
Just upload everything to /dev/null on your server, unlimited write only storage. Save millions with this one neat trick, AWS salesmen hate it.
SQL on Rails<p><a href="https://youtu.be/0_PK1eDQyVg" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/0_PK1eDQyVg</a><p>Always cracks me up, never gets old.
Reminds of C14, which stores data in a nuclear fallout shelter, and takes a few minutes to retrieve. <a href="https://www.scaleway.com/en/c14-cold-storage/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scaleway.com/en/c14-cold-storage/</a>
When the heck is R2 hitting general availability? In my mind it's on the verge of becoming vaporware. Although, it did have the nice side effect of increasing the amount of free egress from S3.
THIS IS GOLD!, I love it, I event click the paypal link to see if you have some old school fake paypal payment gateway.<p>By the way the upload example form is broken, making it actually work would be awesome
This seems like a great service for the storages backend of an applicant tracking system!<p>Given that 98% of resumes don't need to be read, this seems like a sane default.
Confused for a second till I saw "Write-Only storage".<p>Obviously, they should include "Trash bin" in the pricing comparison table.
Fact check: The cost of S3 standard storage per TB is approximately $23 not $153.
S3 standard storage, the most expensive kind, is $.021-.023 per GB.<p>S4 costs about the same as S3 Deep Archive storage.<p>Update: The article appears to be a joke. That aside, there are no cost savings against S3 Deep Archive; additionally S3 Deep Archive supports restores unlike the write-only S4.
Old stuff: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160219044114/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/85027770/25120SpecTwoSides%20NC.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20160219044114/https://dl.dropbo...</a>
lol wut? i like the name.<p>my s4: <a href="https://github.com/nathants/s4" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nathants/s4</a>
Another example of an overpriced cloud service when a faster and cheaper solution is right in your CLI in the form of /dev/null which provides an equivalent service without the network latency and the bills!
I'm guessing this is a competitor to S3 Glacier Deep Archive since you aren't meant to read from it. They don't seem to provide information on how you get your data out. Maybe they will mail your drives with your data?