S4 - $12 for 1 year of 1 TB write-only storage

http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/

by ulvund • 16 years ago

154 67 16 years ago

supersimplestorageservice.com

mwerty• 16 years ago

Surprised that the paypal link is real.

jacquesm14• 16 years ago

Why? It's the perfect product :)

bprater• 16 years ago

If you can never get your data back out, how is it useful?!

zemaj• 16 years ago

I just paid for 1TB (really) :)

catch23• 16 years ago

probably to pay for that upload-only bandwidth.

jacquesm14• 16 years ago

That's why I can beat their price, my api will have superior transfer speeds too. I will use my patented quantum-entangled /dev/null transport layer.

euccastro• 16 years ago

They have a money back guarantee. E.g. in case you manage to read your data back.

gmlk• 16 years ago

LOLROTF

greyman• 16 years ago

MotherInLawPhotos.com - great case study. ;o)

jacquesm14• 16 years ago

Hm. April 1st was a while ago. If you consider buying, hit me up, I'll beat their prices whatever they ask for.

stcredzero6• 16 years ago

Can you offer a transactional API?

jacquesm14• 16 years ago

Hehe, tricky guy :)

Well, let's say that as long as we're talking about files and there is enough local free space I might be able to do that.

But once committed that's it, no rollback past that point.

Or I'd have to charge significantly more.

We'll take this on a case-by-case basis.

Qz• 16 years ago

They check in, but they never ever check out.

jacquesm14• 16 years ago

It's the Hotel California of online storage.

clemesha• 16 years ago

At the top of the page source:

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  <!-- type of guy.  I like that about you.  I also like how you really told off that bully-->
  <!--at the Christmas party... you're such a stud.  And have you lost weight?  You're looking great.-->

and at the bottom:

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Classic.

jacquesm14• 16 years ago

another gem:

http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/error.html?aspxerro...

tdm911• 16 years ago

i like:

"Please contact us with any questions by e-mailing us at the address below. All complaints and feature requests will be immediately stored using our S4-backed user request database."

stcredzero6• 16 years ago

They should have an FAQ:

    Q: I can't read my data!
    A: Good!

dhimes• 16 years ago

The PayPal links work!

JoachimSchipper• 16 years ago

Actually, not too useless for testing your outgoing bandwidth/latency.

jwr• 16 years ago

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.

ynniv• 16 years ago

I'm somewhat disappointed that it isn't. I can think of good reasons for a service in which data cannot be erased. If it could only be read on-site but written over the network, it might be advertised using copy similar to this page.

Maro• 16 years ago

Great interview filter if you ask me.

leftnode• 16 years ago

Better filter for recruiters if you unfortunately have to deal with them. Tell the recruiter you're looking for an applicant with S4 experience and see if you get any resumes back with it. If so, you know the recruiter is altering the resumes.

stcredzero6• 16 years ago

Ask for 5 years experience, until 2015. Then ask for 10.

fierarul• 16 years ago

Or you could buy a licence for /dev/null which supports unlimited write-only storage. No internet required.

stcredzero6• 16 years ago

Someone should patent it!

g__• 16 years ago

And it's extremely fast:

  $ pv /dev/zero > /dev/null
  18.6GB 0:00:05 [3.76GB/s] [    <=>                                            ]

tsuraan• 16 years ago

The really amusing thing is that (at least on my machine) it's pv that's the bottleneck there; I have it using 101% cpu, anyhow. pv will give me 9.7GB/s, whereas dd will give me 13.3GB/s (also at 100% cpu). I wonder if anything's faster than dd :)

MicahWedemeyer• 16 years ago

I won't use anything that doesn't have 5-nines uptime guaranteed by an SLA.

Until there's an enterprise-level solution for /dev/null, I think I'm going to have to stick with S4.

tybris• 16 years ago

I bet they use multiple /dev/null devices in RAID.

someone_here• 16 years ago

Their performance must be insane.

StarLite• 16 years ago

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 :)

rapind2• 16 years ago

Same. I was even thinking: Genius! I almost never need to restore my backups. If I can backup cheaper but still with the peace of mind of knowing that if I do need to restore I just pay an extra fee.

I wonder if there's a real business model there. Most of us restore an extremely small percentage of what we backup. Could you offer a cheaper storage cost than other businesses and make up the difference on the small number of restores that occur?

alnayyir2• 16 years ago

Not really, all the cost is in storage and redundancy, the process of reading/writing/restoration is relatively negligible unless people are using it for media hosting like Amazon S3.

If you're really that desperate for cheap backups, you'd actually be best off storing terabyte hard drives / SAN boxes around the country, maybe in colo'd buildings.

mkelly• 16 years ago

There's definitely a business model, but it's short lived: you have to skip the country before the first person tries to restore his data and realizes you were throwing it all away to begin with. :)

jacquesm14• 16 years ago

In a way this is a variation on a very old theme, here is the original:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1360704

seanc• 16 years ago

For all we know, they've got custom hardware which uses that chip! Maybe that's how they get such fast write speeds.

jacquesm14• 16 years ago

Let's hope they don't pull the chips out too frequently then (check the graphs).

ez77• 16 years ago

Naive question: How do you recover the write-only data?

uptown• 16 years ago

You just need to reverse the polarity.

rbanffy• 16 years ago

Actually, it's a bit more complex than that. You would have to reverse the direction the read device travels through time and then read the write device when they intercept. Reversing the direction multiple times can make multiple reads at different states of the write device.

Sounds feasible, if you have enough strange matter lying around.

strick• 16 years ago

Funny stuff! Looks like a response to Amazon's new offering:

"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."

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/05/19/announc...

elblanco• 16 years ago

"Key Scenarios - Customer complaint database"

Hilarious. I know lots of companies that must use this service.

darrenkopp• 16 years ago

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.

S4 - $12 for 1 year of 1 TB write-only storage

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