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anotheryou on Dec 1, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: AWS Snowmobile – Massive Exabyte-Scale Data Transf...

That's just numbers and a bit of text, no?

I guess anything media related is way bigger. I thought of media archives of TV stations, but those are (if digital already) cold storage with only a low-res preview live.

halleym on Dec 2, 2016 [–]

Check images, receipts, transactions, statements (particularly PDF), deposit slips, mortgage documents... all kept for 7-20+ years.

RangerScience on Dec 5, 2016 | [–]

Oooh. Very good point.

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