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Ask HN: Storing solutions
What other options other than S3 and Rackspace Files there is for storing large amounts of data?
- mike-cardwell 16y agoI find hard drives are quite useful for storing lots of data. You might want to be more specific about your requirements.
- lsc 16y agoI'm also interested in the answer to this question; as far as I can tell, without being shady about ignoring people's AUPs, there isn't anyone who beats s3. If this is the case, I'm considering entering that market at the $0.05/gigabyte price point (both for storage and transfer) rsync.net; it's cheaper than s3 if you transfer up and down a lot, otherwise, more expensive. I think it's around a dollar a gigabyte month if you buy a whole lot, but transfer is free. dreamhost and other shared hosting providers often give you 500GiB/month for like 10 bucks... but if you read their AUP, I think using it for backups is prohibited. still, it's probably worth trying if you are on a tight budget. I don't know of anything that beats a supermicro with 16 or 24 2TiB disks in a co-lo, though.