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I'm not sure if cost is right. Each project I work on is approx. 50-60 TB in size (video). Recent one got backed up on 20 LTO 5 tapes times three. That's $600 f

I'm not sure if cost is right. Each project I work on is approx. 50-60 TB in size (video). Recent one got backed up on 20 LTO 5 tapes times three. That's $600 for tapes per project. Each tape set went to a separate location - two secure ones for about $20/year and one at studio archive for immediate access, if needed. I find this method extremely reliable and it cost ~$700 initially to back all up and virtually non existent further fees. With Glacier it would cost $600 per month.

ghshephard 14y ago
You have a pretty niche (but interesting!) use case. An LTO-5 Tape can store 1.5 Terabytes Raw [1] - Call it 2 Terabytes with a bit of compression (your Video probably doesn't losslessly compress at 2:1). 60 Terabytes requires 30 Tapes - around $15/month to store at Iron Mountain. [2] . The Glacier Charge for 60 Terabytes is $600/month vs $15/month for Tape Storage. Also - upload/recovery times are problematic when you are talking 10s of terabytes. Right now, the equation is in favor of archiving tapes at that level (Even presuming you store multiple copies for redundancy/safety). Glacier is for the people wanting to archive in the sub-ten terabyte range - they can avoid the hassle/cost of purchasing tape drives, tapes, software - and just have their online archive. The needle will move - in 10 years Glacier might make sense for people wanting to store sub 100 Terabytes, and tapes will be for the multi-petabyte people. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open [2] http://www.ironmountain.com/Solutions/~/media/9F17511FA1A74131A0ECF1C132C642E0.pdf http://www.ironmountain.com/Solutions/~/media/9F17511FA1A741...