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As for saving their data, well, about 60 million people need to donate 1 Gb of their hard drive space, or just 6 million people, 10 Gb of their HDDs. Or more s

As for saving their data, well, about 60 million people need to donate 1 Gb of their hard drive space, or just 6 million people, 10 Gb of their HDDs. Or more soberingly, any one of the world's millions of multi-millionaires could write a single cheque to back up all their info, but will anyone do so? Probably not, as collective resources and knowledge are of no benefit to them, indeed even detrimental.

andromeduck 6y ago
If I did the math right, it actually only costs about 72k per year to archive 6PB on Google cloud. Thats well within the range of one Googler's annual discretionary income.
- alwayseasy 6y ago
  sounds cheap! is bandwidth included?
  - zucker42 6y ago
    0.01/GB
    - RNCTX 6y ago
      Not on google cloud, more like tree fitty.
      - zucker42 6y ago
        Oops, I thought this was in reply to the Backblaze comments :/
- mkl 6y ago
  I'm not sure that's right. It's 60PB [1], not 6PB. According to https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing Google's cheapest (?) non-redundant archive storage seems to be USD $0.0012/GB/month. 60 PB = 60e6 GB, so 1 year would cost 1260e6.0012 = 864e3 = USD $864 thousand. That's not counting the cost of getting the data in or getting any of it out to use. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23485594 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23485594
  - andromeduck 6y ago
    Derp! Yeah I guess that's still reasonable for a few dozen donors to pick up. I hope the data survives for posterity.
Reedx 6y ago
A rep from Backblaze gave an estimate on this. $250k/mo, not including probable volume discount. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/h02jl4/lets_say_you_wanted_to_back_up_the_internet/ftmu7cl/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/h02jl4/lets_sa...