Warren Young wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2019, at 1:14 AM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
> <tdteoenming@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>>> Could you recommend affordable and reliable cloud storage for 50 TB
>>>> of data?
>>>
>> My budget is around USD$50 per year.
>>
>
> The cheapest RAID-friendly drives we’re buying these days are about US
> $37/TB in low quantities.
>
> A big data warehouser will be getting a substantial price break on their
> drives, but even halving the payoff time, you’re still asking the cloud
> storage provider to accept a payoff time in the 18 year range. And
> that’s ignoring the cost of rack space, computers to run the drives,
> networking, bandwidth, staff, redundancy, drive turnover...
>
> There’s nothing magical about The Cloud that makes everything cheaper.
> They still have to buy the same components you and I do, then they have
> to pay someone to manage it all, someone else to house it all, etc.
>
> You’re *dreaming*.
$38/tb? Google shopping shows me a 4TB WD Red at $110. A two-drive esata
bay is under $100.
Btw, for anything like this, DO NOT BUY consumer grade drives. Make *sure*
they're NAS-rated, like WD Red or Seagate Ironwolf.
mark
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