Storage type performance

Asked by justink

Hi SyncAny

just wondering if some storage types (ie. picasa) are faster or slower than others

reason i ask is that picasa storage space is very cheap and if picasa storage handles aswell as others that it would make syncany very attractive dropbox replacement

Cheers

Justin

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Philipp C. Heckel (binwiederhier) said :
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I haven't done any performance tests yet. However, I suspect that the differences between the storage types strongly depends on their original transfer speed and overheads.

If bandwidth matters, I would guess that a fast FTP server is most certainly faster than Amazon S3, simply because of the overhead of the individual requests, ... but I'm just guessing.

Note that the Picasa plugin is just a proof-of concept implementation and that a Picasa album is limited to 1000 images (< 1000 Syncany chunks --> < 1000 files). To actually get it to work with Picasa, one had to extend the plugin to work with multiple albums.

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justink (justin-kelly) said :
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thanks for the update Philipp

re picasa
- ok thanks - didnt know if was proof of concept
- will it be developed to support multi albums by default?
-- i hope so as picasa is a cheap way to get large about of storage space online

thanks again

Cheers

Justin

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Philipp C. Heckel (binwiederhier) said :
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I cannot promise anything, but since I myself have a 200GB subscription I
have a strong interest in it :-D

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justink (justin-kelly) said :
#4

thanks philipp!!

keep up the great work with syncany - cant wait for the 1.0 release

cheers

justin