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The post states he paid $150 yo retrieve 60gb of data. For $150 you can buy a 5tb hdd drive. What usecase could the price delta make sense to have a 4 hour fee
by vonklaus 11y ago
The post states he paid $150 yo retrieve 60gb of data. For $150 you can buy a 5tb hdd drive.
What usecase could the price delta make sense to have a 4 hour feedback loop and all of your important data locked in someone elses data center.
the usecase where your data is so properly massive that this makes sense && you don't have the storage infrastructure in place, is so narrow that it doesnt make sense.
It is basically one research student's crawl data
Edit: also, s3 is pretty cheap. So again, i dont really see the usecase here. How much room is in the market between your own physical or digital system and amazon s3 or an equivalent. you would have to have a massive amount of data you dont care about and be very price sensitive.
- 88e282102ae2e5b 11y agoDurability is one reason. A physical hard drive in my desk is so much more susceptible to destruction or loss or theft.
- bigiain 11y agoThis. The data I care about is already backed up on two different multi-TB drives at home, and another one at work. Glacier is the contingency for "something took out the original data and all three backups in two different locations 7 or 8km apart - if I'm still alive after whatever just happened, I'll consider whether or not to pay Amazon a grand or so to retrieve it quickly from Glacier, or wait ~20 months to get it all for single-digit-dollars".
- manigandham 11y agoIf you're talking about personal data, why not just use backblaze and amazon's consumer unlimited cloud storage? That gives you 2 backup providers that can durably store everything and it's free and quick to access. Why deal with all the harddrives and glacier?
- 88e282102ae2e5b 11y agoNeither of those seem free - am I looking in the wrong place? Also there's no Linux client for either AFAICT.
- manigandham 11y agoRight the services cost money but retrieval is free. Going by the cost of the harddrives amortized out, it'll probably be the same or less. You get far more durability and less complexity with universal web access. I believe there are other similar services for Linux or you can just use browser to upload files with Amazon.
- detaro 11y agoA user posted a long example below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10921709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10921709 You don't have to pay $150 for retrieval of 60GB. And you don't do long-term storage for X TB / 5 TB * $150. You might have to rent space in someone elses datacenter to put your own external backup... or you could pay Amazon for Glacier and not deal with maintenance etc. Might be worth it even if you have infrastructure for all data that isn't glacier-cold.
- FireBeyond 11y agoHe paid $150 plus between 50 and 80 CENTS a month to hold a backup of 60GB for four plus years.