Storing a Terabyte of data on Abacus's i mean Abacii....

RainMotorsports · 03-13-2012, 09:54 AM

I was looking for a Terabyte of online storage when I ran into this... not what i was looking for but their advertising department seems to know how to be funny.

I have been putting off upgrading to floppy disks for a long time!

Brett Thomas · 03-13-2012, 02:01 PM

That's just awesome.

I want to store a TB on Abacii... But I don't think I could afford it looking at the costs.

At the very least, someone has an awesome sense of humor!

Rob Williams · 03-14-2012, 08:16 PM

Haha, I love it when marketing departments have a good sense of humor.

$1 for 1TB though? How is a service like that possible? Hard drives are not quite that cheap.

Tharic-Nar · 03-14-2012, 08:25 PM

Compression, shared storage, de-duplication, etc. Just because someone has 1TB of data available, doesn't mean they'll use all of it (over-subscribe). That or it's just bogus, lol.

Kougar · 03-15-2012, 02:57 PM

Cute marketing gig.

Bandwidth is cheap, but not that cheap. And there's also the cost of electricity + maintaining infrastructure. Sounds like another one of those bait & switch storage runs, where after luring in customers they raise their rates. Customers either have to pay to get their data back, or just go along with it due to the hassle of moving it all again. From what I read it isn't uncommon...

03-13-2012, 09:54 AM	#1
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03-14-2012, 08:16 PM	#3
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03-14-2012, 08:25 PM	#4
Tharic-Nar Techgage Staff Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: UK Posts: 1,151	Compression, shared storage, de-duplication, etc. Just because someone has 1TB of data available, doesn't mean they'll use all of it (over-subscribe). That or it's just bogus, lol. __________________ PSU: Corsair 1000HX - Case: Thermaltake Xaser VI Full Tower - CPU: Intel Core i7 2600 @3.8GHz - Cooler: Thermaltake FRIO - Motherboard: ASUS P67 Sabertooth - Memory: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LP Arctic 1600 - GPU: 2x AMD Radeon HD 5870 - HDD: WD Caviar Black 1TB 6Gb/s - Audio: ASUS Xonar DX + Corsair HS1 USB Headset K/B: Corsair K90 - Mouse: Corsair M60 - Monitor: DELL U2410 - Speakers: Corsair SP2500 - Headset: Corsair HS1A - Mic: Blue Yeti USB Microphone - I need Fiber to fix my Irregular Bandwidth Syndrome -

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03-13-2012, 02:01 PM	#2
Brett Thomas Senior Editor Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 164	That's just awesome. I want to store a TB on Abacii... But I don't think I could afford it looking at the costs. At the very least, someone has an awesome sense of humor!