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Bitcasa ceo tony gauda3/18/2023 ![]() ![]() What does $69 a year cover in Amazon's various storage offerings? It can't be much. What does 20GB of disk x 12 months plus the data transfer cost for a year on Amazon? Couple that together with the fact that many of these subscribed plans go unused or sit empty, well sure they have headroom.īut no matter how many PhD generated patents and marketing bullshit they come up with, there is a very finite limit. Meaning a very common ratio of 5-to-1 oversell ability. I take it by their estimates up to 80% of what people back up is "not unique".Įven with said reduction due to duplication in mass, a 100GB storage user would end up using 20GB. While that sounds great, it proves that most folks probably have nothing unique, special, created, etc. There is a limit, be it, throughput, actual physical disk, data transfer maximum over the month, etc.īitcasa operates on this funny idea that it's customers are uninspired morons who have the very same data as many other moron customers. People are selling finite everything, except for lies. Haven't we had enough of the unlimited calling plans, the claims of unlimited data, etc? It's fraud when you use certain words intended to mislead reasonable people. Should be easy to burn that up with Amazon. Imagine the IO speed will be hideous.Īnd they supposedly have crypto on the files too, which is more overhead. I should test their system with 500GB of unique data made up of millions of files and see how they do with that. That's hashing and relationship maps from users to files. Bitcasa also explained that a freemium model is on its way with less-than-unlimited storage for free. Using patented de-duplication algorithms, compression techniques and encryption, Bitcasa keeps costs down (way, way down, but that’s it’s secret sauce), which is what makes it so affordable. Each person only tends to have around 25 GB of unique, personal data, he says. If you have an MP3 file, someone else probably has the same one, for example. The fact is, 60% of your data is duplicate. Explains Bitcasa CEO Tony Gauda, $10/month still gives the company large margins. And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap? ![]()
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