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> It costs the Internet Archive $2/GB to host content in perpetuity. Do you have source/more info than that? Lets say the internet archive is 100 PB [1], that
by tablespoon 5y ago
> It costs the Internet Archive $2/GB to host content in perpetuity.
Do you have source/more info than that?
Lets say the internet archive is 100 PB [1], that's 100,000,000 GB [2], and at that rate it comes out to $200 million [3] for the whole thing forever. That's a lot of money, but also a lot less than I was expecting for something like that.
[1] https://www.protocol.com/internet-archive-preserving-future https://www.protocol.com/internet-archive-preserving-future: "The web archive alone is about 45 petabytes — 4,500 terabytes — and the Internet Archive itself is about double that size (the group has other collections, like a huge database of educational films, music and even long-gone software programs)."
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=100+petabytes+to+gb https://www.google.com/search?q=100+petabytes+to+gb: "100 petabyte = 1e+8 gigabytes"
[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=1e%2B8+*+%242 https://www.google.com/search?q=1e%2B8+*+%242: "1e+8 * (US$ 2) = 200 million US$"
- kaashif 5y agoI love that you have a citation for 2 * 100 million = 200 million. I've seen papers where the use of "=" sweeps a lot of non-trivial equalities under the rug, but this is the first time I've seen something go the other way this far. I suppose the claim is rather shocking and warrants citations - $200m to host the entire internet archive forever? I don't blame you for the excessive citation.
- majou 5y agoRe: [1] 45 PB = 45,000 TB
- NavinF 5y agoAssume $11.88/TB [1], 5W per 4TB disk, and $0.2/kWh. We’re talking $1.19mm NRC + $18.3k MRC. With a 9% discount rate, that’s only $3.63 million dollars in present value to pay for infinity months. Of course there are other costs (and cheaper more efficient disks; and cheaper power; and your discount might be less aggressive; and server aren’t free tho you only need like 1 server for 100 disks with SAS expanders since most data is never read; and maintenance), but the $200 million number you got seems very reasonable to me. 1: https://diskprices.com/ https://diskprices.com/
- texasbigdata 5y agoNo humans? :)
- NavinF 5y agoAh I was only thinking of marginal costs. I’m pretty sure the $2/GB figure is the cost of adding a little more data to the IA, not the total cost.