BlazeOS Web Services (BWS)

Hardware

BWS Ice

⚠️ Important note ⚠️
Hardware is currently unavailable for purchase, due to a lack of funding

Go to the page for BWS Hardware to see other BWS hardware (:octocat: GitHub link)

BWS Ice is a friendlier alternative to the AWS Snowball hardware. Its main advantage is that you don't have to manually upload all data through the Internet slowly, and that it can all be placed on a giant storage device, and sent to an igloo. Its capacity ranges in the sizes of a hundred terabytes (100,000,000,000,000 bytes) to 3 zettabytes (3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)

It has 4 hardware variants:

IceCicle - A high capacity giant flash drive that stores between 100 terabytes and 1 petabyte. It is the lowest data tier of the BWS Ice series
IceCube - A high capacity external drive that stores between 1 petabyte and 16 petabytes. It is the second data tier of the BWS Ice series
IceBlocks - A very high capacity drive that stores between 1 exabyte and 16 exabytes. It is designed for big organizations and companies. It is the third data tier of the BWS Ice series
IceBergs - The highest capacity BWS storage device that stores between 1 zettabyte and 3 zettabytes. It is designed for giant organizations and companies. It is the fourth data tier of the BWS Ice series

Igloo

An igloo is a local datacenter where IceCicles, IceCubes, IceBlocks, and IceBergs are stored. To prevent creating a dependency, the user has the option to go to the data center and retrieve their hardware at any time, although you can also have it shipped to you.

Zamboni

The Zamboni software client is the client for BWS Ice devices. It is written in Java, and allows the maintenance of your storage devices. Unlike Amazons SnowMobiles, the Zamboni client and other tools pre-installed on BWS Ice is purely free software, with no software limitations. You can even install other software on it instead of Zamboni if needed.

Original draft

The original draft for the technology of BWS Ice that helped build this page.

BWS Hardware

BWS IceCicles

Flash drive variant of BWS IceCubes
(variants: 100 terabytes (I) 256 terabytes (II) 512 terabytes (III) 1 petabyte (IV) )

BWS IceCubes

Alternative to AWS Snowballs, designed for less storage
(variants: 1 Petabyte (I) 2 petabytes (II) 4 petabytes (III) 5 petabytes (IV) 6 petabytes (V) 8 petabytes (VI) 10 petabytes (VII) 12 petabytes (VIII) 16 petabytes (IX) )

BWS IceBlocks
Medium-mega data storage
(variants: 1 exabyte (I) 2 exabytes (II) 4 exabytes (III) 5 exabytes (IV) 6 exabytes (V) 8 exabytes (VI) 10 exabytes (VII) 12 exabytes (VIII) 16 exabytes (IX) )

BWS IceBergs
Big data storage
(variants: 1 zettabyte (I) 2 zettabytes (II) 3 zettabytes (III) )


BWS Software for BWS Hardware

BWS Zamboni

Manages all BWS Hardware

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BlazeOS Web Services (BWS)

Hardware

BWS Ice

IceCicle

IceCubes

IceBlocks

IceBergs

Igloo

Zamboni

Original draft

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