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Well yeah. S3 is ~$23/TB/month vs $10/TB HDD NRC + $0.20/TB/month electricity for a data hoarder NAS. I can’t imagine S3 users are very price sensitive. Most of
by NavinF 4y ago
Well yeah. S3 is ~$23/TB/month vs $10/TB HDD NRC + $0.20/TB/month electricity for a data hoarder NAS. I can’t imagine S3 users are very price sensitive. Most of them store <1PB.
Of course there are cheaper cloud services like B2 at $5/TB/mo, but even that can’t compete on price with physical infra when you have more than a handful of drives.
- Dylan16807 4y agoNot that it changes the math much, but: $15/TB is hard enough for a home buyer to reach for hard drives, excluding server cost. Where did you get $10?
- cmeacham98 4y agoNot them, but searching for "8TB HDD" on Amazon (huh, ironic) shows several options for $90, which is almost $10/TB. And this was 60 seconds of searching, no real effort put in.
- NavinF 4y ago$15/TB is extremely expensive if you’re building a raidz2 array. $9.70/TB 10TB: https://www.ebay.com/itm/275400447467 https://www.ebay.com/itm/275400447467 $8.31/TB 4x8TB: https://www.ebay.com/itm/125132232253 https://www.ebay.com/itm/125132232253 You can get even cheaper if you buy in bulk. Server cost is $1/TB with reasonable density
- Dylan16807 4y agoOh. Used drives.