[178607] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Satchell)
Sun Mar 1 05:08:08 2015
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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 02:08:04 -0800
From: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 02/28/2015 07:55 PM, Barry Shein wrote:
> And given lousy upload speeds the opportunities to develop for example
> backup services in a world of terabyte disks is limited. At 1mb/s it
> takes approx 100,000 seconds to upload 1TB, that's roughly one week,
> blue sky.
If that terabyte drive holds little files and the backup program uses
incremental backup, a slow upload rate shouldn't be all that painful.
Video editors need to look at local-network solutions for their backup,
at least until upload rates increase by a factor of 10 or better.
It just hit me: when one has just a hammer in his toolbox everything
starts to look like nails. Network-based storage could just be one of
those.
