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We ordered a 100 TB snowball it took 4 months to copy the data. We wrote and told them we needed urgent help and all we got was e mail responses and crickets. Than the time on the Snowball expired. Than we had to send it back and order another snowball. The new snowball is saying 88 days to copy our files. DO NOT USE AMAZON SNOWBALL. It takes forever to copy from SAN and the customer service STINKS!!! Even when we marked the request as urgent no one called us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
None of it, this product stinks and the customer service is horrible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
On of my employers planned to move to cloud partially and used snowball for data transfer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Snow ball comes in 50TB and 80TB sizes and very useful to copy data onto AWS data centers. Its very robust and secure. Data transfer speed is fast and the highlight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The nonprofit I work for employs 51 professionals across a variety of departments (education, events, development, etc). Given our limited size, we do not have on-site IT. The vast majority of IT responsibilities falls upon the Digital Library team I am a part of and our off-site IT contractors. When task with migrating 20 TB of assets from a harddrive into our S3, we knew we did not have the infrastrucute or services to perform such a migration and at a reasonable pace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The support the Snowball provides for small organizations to provide significant data migration. Our TBs migrated via Snowball are being used in our Digital Library as we speak. The quick and easy transfer allowed us to provide access to TBs of information for our users in significantly less time than if we had done it on our own. In the Library and Archives world, accessibility, and online accessibility, is key. The Snowball greatly expedites this goal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There was a need to shift a significant amount of data from one client to another, where connection to the cloud may or may not be possible due to security and a lack of network access. Thank goodness for the external hard drive that literally never be filled up because the client was able to take the data from the site and load it (not the technical term) into the snowball, where they could take it and attach it to the clients local network for migration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
If you need to securely and quickly transfer data to AWS, Snowball is the right choice. Especially if your schedule doesn't allow time to make expensive upgrades to the network infrastructure. It's also great for secondary and third locations because they often have large backlogs of data and can be in a physically isolated environment. All reasons snowball can help save the day! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This service is simple and effective. You plug plug in the box and move and scan a few settings and you are able to move the data from one node to the next. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Simple and effective moving Terabytes of data from our on prem area to the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Migrated data set to AWS from on-premise servers. Simple and straight foward to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
the whitepapers on the service were great to get an understanding of the service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
