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Slightly off-topic but does anybody know any services that you can pre-pay to store images long term? Say 10+ years. Flickr only allow you to buy an account fo

Slightly off-topic but does anybody know any services that you can pre-pay to store images long term? Say 10+ years. Flickr only allow you to buy an account for the next 2 years.

make3 9y ago
Amazon s3 long term use contract?
res0nat0r 9y ago
Glacier is $0.004/GB https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/ https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/
- ktpsns 9y ago
  Just looked into the pricing and the lions share comes when you (especially quickly) need the data again. Why not buy instead one or even multiple cheap but large USB hard disc and put it into your shelve or to your friends? It gives you immediate access for free. I don't get it why one rents a service instead of staying independent.
  - willglynn 9y ago
    Data storage devices have a finite lifetime, so data storage is necessarily a recurring expense. Copies that can't be read aren't copies any more, which means regular access is a requirement, which means another recurring expense. Different requirements can reasonably result in different solutions, but a USB hard drive on its own is simply not comparable to storage service. A redundant set of USB hard drives with a specified replacement schedule and testing procedure would be comparable -- but if you amortize all that out, we're talking about $X + Y hours per month for Z GB of storage, which compares directly to $X/GB-month if time has a dollar value. From this perspective, I argue that storage services like S3, Glacier, B2, and Digital Ocean Spaces are priced fairly.
- digianarchist 9y ago
  Glacier is billed monthly. I'm looking to buy 5-20 years service in advance.
dannyw 9y ago
I’m surprised no one has started a “perpetual storage for upfront cost”. With hardware costs going lower and lower, and rate limits enforceable to keep this for archivig, you could model a price with a suitable profit margin.
sitkack 9y ago
Maybe tarsnap? What you need is a service to take object buckets and make a tape backup that is replicated, re-read and re-archived over time.

Slightly off-topic but does anybody know any services that you can pre-pay to store images long term? Say 10+ years. Flickr only allow you to buy an account for the next 2 years.

make3 9y ago

Amazon s3 long term use contract?

res0nat0r 9y ago

Glacier is $0.004/GB https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/ https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/

ktpsns 9y ago
Just looked into the pricing and the lions share comes when you (especially quickly) need the data again. Why not buy instead one or even multiple cheap but large USB hard disc and put it into your shelve or to your friends? It gives you immediate access for free. I don't get it why one rents a service instead of staying independent.
- willglynn 9y ago
  Data storage devices have a finite lifetime, so data storage is necessarily a recurring expense. Copies that can't be read aren't copies any more, which means regular access is a requirement, which means another recurring expense. Different requirements can reasonably result in different solutions, but a USB hard drive on its own is simply not comparable to storage service. A redundant set of USB hard drives with a specified replacement schedule and testing procedure would be comparable -- but if you amortize all that out, we're talking about $X + Y hours per month for Z GB of storage, which compares directly to $X/GB-month if time has a dollar value. From this perspective, I argue that storage services like S3, Glacier, B2, and Digital Ocean Spaces are priced fairly.
digianarchist 9y ago
Glacier is billed monthly. I'm looking to buy 5-20 years service in advance.

dannyw 9y ago

I’m surprised no one has started a “perpetual storage for upfront cost”. With hardware costs going lower and lower, and rate limits enforceable to keep this for archivig, you could model a price with a suitable profit margin.

sitkack 9y ago

Maybe tarsnap? What you need is a service to take object buckets and make a tape backup that is replicated, re-read and re-archived over time.