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jerfyesterday at 7:28 PM1 replyview on HN

"Our current (April 2026) object usage is: 14 million objects, 119GB"

I mean, I appreciate the openness about the scale, but for context, my home's personal backup managed via restic to S3 is 370GB. Fewer objects, but still, we're not talking a big install here.

This is pretty much like that story of, if it fits on your laptop, it's not big data.


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eichinyesterday at 7:36 PM

My phone has 327.1G of storage in use right now :-) (years ago a friend of mine who was also old enough to complain about "640k" suggested that we should just denominate storage in dollars, so "reasonable" amounts scaled with Moore's law...)