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		IndianAstronaut on Dec 1, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Big Data Coming in Faster Than Biomedical Research... I am surprised they don't use something like S3 to scale up the storage withouf buying hardware.

jerven on Dec 1, 2016 [–]

From the perspective of the student S3 over university wifi is not "better" than local USB2 hard drives. It actually is a risk budget wise.

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