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The problem with these sorts of services is that they require finicky clientside software. The problem with real "storage" services (S3, Rackspace, etc.) is th
by drewcrawford 17y ago
The problem with these sorts of services is that they require finicky clientside software.
The problem with real "storage" services (S3, Rackspace, etc.) is that they're ridiculously expensive--on the order of "buy a new backup drive every few months" expensive. Plus there's no way to ship drives to them or have them ship drives to you in an emergency.
I'd love to colocate a Backblaze pod in a datacenter and just rsync a few TB up to it. That way I can handle my own xattrs, my own bare metal, and not worry about finicky client software. Problem: $8k or so is way outside my backup budget...
Yeah, I know I could just colocate a $500 NAS, but it seems to wasteful to have so much CPU, power, etc., just for one backup.
If only we could round up a few hundred HNers to split a Backblaze pod...
- weaksauce 17y agoWOW... that is impressive. 67TB in a 4U. They put a lot of thought into those servers. http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-h... Edit: Impressive service and great price point. It looks like the only thing that I would want to have as well is geographic redundancy too.
- jcapote 17y agoFYI, you can mail drives to S3: http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/ http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
- drewcrawford 17y agoDevice Handling $80.00 per storage device handled. Data Loading Time $2.49 per data-loading-hour. Partial data-loading-hours are billed as full hours. Yes, on the order of cost-of-drive.