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Glacier would cost about $30 per month to store 8 terabytes, according to the price calculator (calculator.s3.amazonaws.com). S3 infrequent access storage would
by Pyxl101 9y ago
Glacier would cost about $30 per month to store 8 terabytes, according to the price calculator (calculator.s3.amazonaws.com). S3 infrequent access storage would cost $100 per month. These amounts seem pretty cheap for storing 8 terabytes online and offline respectively.
- magnetic 9y agoIf you do the math, you see that an 8TB drive can be found for $125 (granted, it's a special deal) at https://slickdeals.net/f/10919999-8tb-seagate-backup-plus-hub-usb-3-0-external-hard-drive-125-w-visa-checkout-free-store-pickup?src=SiteSearchV2_SearchBarV2Algo1 https://slickdeals.net/f/10919999-8tb-seagate-backup-plus-hu... - but it's quite common to find them around $200. Then the RPi 3 is under $50. Without even talking about the difficulty of dealing with Glacier files in an incremental backup scheme, doing the initial sync, and checking the backup data regularly, we're talking about something that will probably cost $250 for a couple of years of backup (assuming the drive only lasts 2 years) vs $720 (glacier) or $2,400 (S3) if I use your numbers. It seems like a significant difference to me, especially because the assumptions on how often my drive will fail are quite pessimistic.