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If you want to store data as cheap as possible online, you are looking at 4 EUR / TB / month of capacity. https://www.reddit.com/r/seedboxes/comments/6d1h34/one

by chx 9y ago

If you want to store data as cheap as possible online, you are looking at 4 EUR / TB / month of capacity. https://www.reddit.com/r/seedboxes/comments/6d1h34/oneprovider_advertises_2x2tb_hw_raid_unltd_1gbps/di44nzg/ https://www.reddit.com/r/seedboxes/comments/6d1h34/oneprovid... To lower that with a significant up front cost, you could buy the drives yourself, perhaps shucking external ones and then send them over to Vapornode https://vapornode.com/storage-vps https://vapornode.com/storage-vps so they can host it at 10 USD a month per disk. If you have a Fry's close by, they have 8TB units for 200, recently Best Buy had them for 180 but I think that ended. So that's 200 + 10 / month vs 4.5 * 8 = 36 USD / month, you are saving 26 USD a month, it takes eight months for this to be cheaper. I would say it's not worth it because replacing dead disks are on you but it's up to you. Also getting many smaller disks make for better RAID. Finally, lowendtalk regularly has discussions on bring your own disk providers. You need to know what you are buying but it's doable.

joshbaptiste 9y ago
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- chx 9y ago
  And a lot of problems. Read lowendtalk, there are reports of disks mailed in and not hosted for weeks or months.
imaginenore 9y ago
Backblaze supposedly has B2 storage, which is $5/TB/month, and they claim it's redundant. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html
- chx 9y ago
  We need to factor the two cents per gigabyte download somehow but I agree that the latest cut from five to two cents made it much more appealing. But it's very funny how it is practically the same 4 EUR a month a terabyte as the rent-a-server-for-its disks solutions.
Veratyr 9y ago
You can get lower than that even, if you need a lot of data. Buy a used SC846 second hand, that costs ~$900 inclusive of rails and a SAS2 backplane upgrade. Then buy drives. You can get 8TB drives for ~$230 (Seagate Archive or shucked Reds) or $0.027/GB. Add cheap colocation for say $70/mo. Assuming the hardware lives about 5 years, total cost is $900 + (70x12x5 = $4200) + num_gb x 0.027. If you fill all the bays you're looking at 192TB for 5 years for $10284, or $171.4/month or $0.90/TB/mo.
- chx 9y ago
  Well, yes, but that's just one machine and you are responsible for keeping it running.

by chx 9y ago

joshbaptiste 9y ago

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chx 9y ago
And a lot of problems. Read lowendtalk, there are reports of disks mailed in and not hosted for weeks or months.

imaginenore 9y ago

Backblaze supposedly has B2 storage, which is $5/TB/month, and they claim it's redundant. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html

chx 9y ago
We need to factor the two cents per gigabyte download somehow but I agree that the latest cut from five to two cents made it much more appealing. But it's very funny how it is practically the same 4 EUR a month a terabyte as the rent-a-server-for-its disks solutions.

Veratyr 9y ago

You can get lower than that even, if you need a lot of data. Buy a used SC846 second hand, that costs ~$900 inclusive of rails and a SAS2 backplane upgrade. Then buy drives. You can get 8TB drives for ~$230 (Seagate Archive or shucked Reds) or $0.027/GB. Add cheap colocation for say $70/mo. Assuming the hardware lives about 5 years, total cost is $900 + (70x12x5 = $4200) + num_gb x 0.027. If you fill all the bays you're looking at 192TB for 5 years for $10284, or $171.4/month or $0.90/TB/mo.

chx 9y ago
Well, yes, but that's just one machine and you are responsible for keeping it running.