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Because I was curious what drives cost today -- 20 TB drives on newegg seems to be available for $310 to $360. If you use erasure coding w/ 30% overhead that'
by x0x0 3y ago
Because I was curious what drives cost today --
20 TB drives on newegg seems to be available for $310 to $360. If you use erasure coding w/ 30% overhead that's 18 +3 drives or $7.5k in drives alone, pre chassis.
Having a DR replica living somewhere outside your house probably gets this well over $12k, even if that replica is glacier or similar.
- RajT88 3y agoSo I found 20tb drives as low as 270 (which is what I used for my own pricing out of a hypothetical build), but if you feel lucky you can get large capacity refurb drives for a lot less than brand new (I did this recently for scratch space on my NAS). A refurb 20tb can be had as low as 200, which gets you down to 4200. But yes - I realized my mistake in tossing off that comment offhand.
- x0x0 3y agoOh sorry, I wasn't trying to bag on you. I was curious what it takes to store 1/3PB these days, and even at $15k it's surprisingly cheap.
- nehereus 3y agoA few days ago I bought an 18TB enterprise grade hard drive from a hardware refurbishing company for 170 bucks. I assume he can find a home for his data for around $3500 (if he chooses to not have any redundancy)