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Why are you comparing S3 costs to "just" HDDs? HDD's aren't web enabled and require other hardware to run and keep running.
by watty 13y ago
Why are you comparing S3 costs to "just" HDDs? HDD's aren't web enabled and require other hardware to run and keep running.
- nathancahill 13y agoA more accurate comparison would be a BackBlaze Storage Pod [0] [0] http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20/180tb-of-good-vibrations-storage-pod-3-0/ http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20/180tb-of-good-vibration...
- midas007 13y agoCapEx + OpEx together averages 3x retail cost of hw for a medium sized web shop, labor and electricity being the biggest costs in each respectively.
- PhantomGremlin 13y agoThat's not enough. Don't forget that Amazon automatically duplicates your data in multiple physical locations.
- nathancahill 13y agoTrue. Backblaze wouldn't be enough in a natural disaster. Interestingly, even S3 reduced redundancy claims 400 times the durability of a typical disk drive. [0] [0] http://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#rrs_anchor http://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#rrs_anchor