Cloud storage: Rice disk application of distributed storage technology and large-scale hardware architecture

The pricing of cloud storage is the same as the pricing of some tools. For a long time, almost all manufacturers are repeating the same slogan: "Users only pay for what they use." The price range for public cloud storage is 12% to 25% per gigabyte a month.

However, the real cost-saving aspects of cloud storage are likely to be linked to the ability to solve the incidental costs of enterprise users, who need to store their own data in the cloud. "Some companies that need to manage their data find they can get out of the data center, and they gradually start to yield and cloud storage." "If you don't need space, power and cooling requirements, then it doesn't matter if the storage price is cheap," said Terri McClure, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Starting to move data into the cloud is a better and cheaper alternative than building a new datacenter. ”

The rice dish is a network hard drive that entered the test phase earlier this year, and its birth is designed to provide free and stable high-speed network storage and distribution services to Internet users. It is reported that the rice tray service is built on the unique distributed storage technology and large-scale hardware architecture, so this makes its team's operational costs will be far lower than the traditional network hard disk vendors.

At the same time, the rice disk is a new network with multi-protocol, can support Telecommunications (HTTP), Netcom (http), Donkey download (recommended), Thunderbolt download and cyclone download, and so on, not only to ensure the fast download of popular content, but also to protect the unpopular or old content of long-term sources. (Official website: http://www.damipan.com/; Official blog: http://blog.damipan.com/)

Rice dish vs rayfile vs Nano disc

Someone might ask, "Why use a network?" There are many reasons for this, for example. For example, you are a music lover, the hard disk saved a few g dozens of g of the song, but usually you can't think of listening to a few, save and occupy space. Then you can pass these songs to the network hard disk, want to listen to download down to appreciate. This saves the hard collection of documents, and does not occupy the space of local hard disk, need to be available at any time, can say more than a stroke.

There are many other network hard drives in the current market, such as Rayfile (formerly Fs2You), Uushare, interest plate, nano plate, etc. The "health" mechanism introduced by Rayfile is what I find most reliable for the sustainable operation of commercial web sites, I prefer to store large files (movies, albums, etc.) while storing small files, I personally prefer to use uushare services.

Select the main consideration of the network is nothing but a one-time can upload size, the total can upload size, upload can save time, upload speed, download speed and so on, I think the most important is the first two points. Currently do not limit the total size of the net plate, that is, common rayfile, nano disk, and now the rice plate. As for the total can upload size, the three are basically no restrictions. About the storage time, Rayfile did not clearly point out that the nano disk is said to be 7 days, of course, this is not download the situation, if there is a steady stream of downloads, theoretically will not be deleted. And the advantage of the rice dish is now here, it is proposed that never delete the file unless you delete it yourself. By the way, to mention the next nano-disk, there is a new function is to bind MSN Mailbox can enjoy the 25G upper limit of permanent preservation, but each file must be limited to the size of 50M. In view of the rice plate is still in the trial state, if the upload of relatively small resources, there is a nano-disk is a good choice.

New function of rice plate

Because the rice disk is based on the dynamic cloud storage structure, the new features compared to other traditional networked storage platforms include:

(1) Multithreading upload. Users can choose "Speed upload" mode to open multi-threaded upload, as much as possible use of network bandwidth, improve upload speed. For ADSL users multi-threaded upload may affect the speed of the network, recommended only overnight upload and so on use.

(2) The extension of the breakpoint. The new upload system has the ability to resume the breakpoint, when the network is interrupted or unstable will automatically retry, and keep the original upload progress.

(3) The size of a single file is infinite. The new upload system has no restrictions on the size of individual files.

(4) Upload queue. You can select multiple files to upload sequentially, or even bulk select a file to upload a key.

(5) Intelligent recognition. If other users have uploaded this file in the rice tray, you can save your bandwidth and time by intelligently identifying the upload immediately.

(6) As we all know, due to the limitations of traditional browsers, the implementation of the extension of breakpoint upload function must install a special client or plug-in. The rice plate decided to break through the tradition, not to promote and force the use of rice disk their own clients. Instead, you can implement all the special uploads by supporting the Open-source software Google Gears.

Google Gears is Google's launch of a fully open source and free browser aids (based on the Google Cloud Platform development), the current majority of the mainstream operating systems and browsers have good support. IE or Firefox users can be installed after the use of Google Browser (Google Chrome) is native support can be used directly.

(7) Cross-browser across platforms. Because of the use of Google Gears upload function, so long as Google Gears support platform, whether it is Windows, Linux, MAC, whether it is IE, Firefox or Safari, and even some models of smartphones, The new upload system will be perfectly supported.