[AusNOG] Offsite Storage

[Nick Stallman]

Nothing official, however its fairly well assumed.

The Register says they are tape.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/28/spectra_h1_fy2013/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/18/ipexpo_2012/

Tape has far more capacity than bluray so BR seems unlikely.

In any case it is a tape-like medium with the same pros/cons as tape.

On 26/11/14 17:28, Matt Palmer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 04:15:24PM +1100, Nick Stallman wrote:
>> Glacier is tape storage (hence the retrieval delays/limits and
>> price) so clearly AWS still thinks its a player.
> Got an authoritative cite for that?  As far as I know, AWS has never made a
> statement as to what it is using, however the most educated-sounding guess
> I've read is that they're using some sort of write-once, archival-quality
> BluRay disks (based on the fact that some non-trivial percentage of the
> world's BR production gets bought by Amazon).
>
> - Matt
>
>

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