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My workstation is 100% ssd, but I also have 100TB capacity of network storage, and 100TB of backup storage (about 48% used today) it is not economical for me t
by syshum 7y ago
My workstation is 100% ssd, but I also have 100TB capacity of network storage, and 100TB of backup storage (about 48% used today) it is not economical for me to use SSD for that
>I'll mention cloud storage is a competitor too.
It is, but today for my home system it cost me about $2-3/TB/MO (maybe less that number is about 3 years old, and drives have dropped in price recently) to build and maintain reliable storage, with backups, that include electricity and amortized capital costs along with replacement hardware every 5-7 years
The absolute cheapest cloud storage out there right now if $5/TB/MO so it getting close, and if drive manufacturer start playing shading games like this that increase the Cost per TB then that might be the tipping point.
- eisa01 7y agoI thought it was $5/TB/month too, but turns out you can get down to $1/TB/month with "Deep Glacier" etc., $2.5/TB for retrieval
- syshum 7y agoThat might be useful as backup storage, but archival storage can not be used as a replacement for general use NAS storage
- imtringued 7y agoGlacier is far more complicated than you might think. It only makes sense in case of disaster recovery where you lost everything including your non glacier backups.