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Help me out with the math here: 1 terabyte costs them $128.41 per year, right? Amazon S3 would cost them roughly $444 per year, if they were using the Reduced
by VikingCoder 15y ago
Help me out with the math here:
1 terabyte costs them $128.41 per year, right?
Amazon S3 would cost them roughly $444 per year, if they were using the Reduced Redundancy Storage.
The cheapest HD that I see on pcpartpicker (in terms of Price/GB) is the Western Digital Caviar Green 2.5 TB (5400 RPM) for $135.43, which is $0.054/GB. That's $54.17 per TB.
If you want a single backup, that's $108.34 per TB. Two backups (3 copies of each file), is $162.51 per TB.
So, if I'm doing this right, as long as their HDs last at least 15 months, on average, they have triple-redundancy, and the cheapest price ratio for consumer hardware. And I'm not even counting their power, network, cooling, or puny humans to maintain it all. That means their HDs, if they were made out of the cheapest parts I could find, would have to last significantly longer than 15 months, on average.
They're actually doing really good on price, if you ask me.
Or am I missing something obvious, or doing the math horribly wrong?
- rarrrrrr 15y agoThe math looks good to me. I think they are saying that it's costing them $128.41 per year just to continue to run it -- i.e. considering the hardware itself a sunk cost.
- samstave 15y agoYeah, I think you are exactly right. This, at 9K/day for that much data appears really good. That is ~$.028 cents PER TB PER DAY to store it. Christ, I am paying Dropbox charges me, at $10/MONTH for 50GB the equivalent of $6.67 PER DAY in storage costs. For my 50GB, I am charged $.33 per day.
- samstave 15y agoI don't know why I was downvoted, but the $6.67 per day cost is PER TERABYTE I think whomever downvoted that thought I was referring to the per GB cost.
- njharman 15y agoThe hardware cost 1.25 million. It cost $9000/day in electricity/connectivity/rackspace.
- VikingCoder 15y agoGot it. So, yeah, I missed something completely obvious.
- brownbat 15y agoTrue. I'm honestly surprised they didn't declare daily depreciation, for $1.25 million in assets that are obsoleted by new technology at Moore's pace, I'd expect that could arguably be quite high.
- nikcub 15y agothey need to get a lawyer and work out the real cost. add in lost business opportunity, staff costs, brand damange etc. and you start hitting numbers where the government would have to do something and you may actually start getting compensated. it is bullshit that they have to foot such a large cost for a government investigation.