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As an example, one thing I use my storage pool for is streaming movies via Plex (from Blu-rays I own). If these were stored in S3, in addition to paying for tha
by greggyb 3y ago
As an example, one thing I use my storage pool for is streaming movies via Plex (from Blu-rays I own). If these were stored in S3, in addition to paying for that storage monthly, I would have to pay >$2/movie to stream it to my own house, thanks to Amazon's $0.09/GB egress fees. This is on par with what it would cost to rent a movie from any of the major online streaming services that do rentals.
There are some things that are worthwhile to store and have available on the network, but not to pay a third party for.
- bradleyjg 3y agoFair enough but then on the flip side, how bad is it really if you take a data loss? I’m storing baby pictures and the like at s3 glacier.
- greggyb 3y agoIt is annoying and time consuming to recover. There is a whole sort of middle area between ephemeral and needing 11 9s of resilience that you seem to be discounting. Perhaps you live in a world where those two extremes dominate. Maybe you can accept that others do not, and not ask strangers to justify their choices to you?