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Stop switching around between hardware cost and yearly cost, jesus... (pa means per annum) 0.7PB on Amazon S3 costs $810k for 3 years (as per their cost calcul

by moe 12y ago

Stop switching around between hardware cost and yearly cost, jesus... (pa means per annum) 0.7PB on Amazon S3 costs $810k for 3 years (as per their cost calculator). Renting 1.4PB raw from Hetzner costs about $270k for 3 years. Running 1.4PB raw on your own hardware costs about $150k for 3 years (on Supermicro JBODs). It's not that hard really, and my point merely was that the difference is much bigger than you made it sound.

parasubvert 12y ago
Apples, to apples please. 0.7PB on Amazon S3 reduced redundancy is $582,660 over three years with geo-redundancy and availability across an entire region, and lifecycle to push to Glacier which would drop the price to $289,872 annually given 50,000 monthly uploads and 20% monthly retrieval. No labour when it comes to dealing with equipment failures. I'd also say that only SMBs and web/internet companies run the equivalent SuperMicro JBODs, most large companies use enterprise storage vendors like EMC, NetApp, HP/3PAR which are premium priced.
- moe 12y ago
  Apples, to apples please. You are right, I should have compared to S3 reduced redundancy, sorry. So we're down to $582k (S3-RR) vs $270k (Hetzner) vs $150k (own hardware). That's still a healthy 2x-4x difference. Glacier If you introduce Glacier then it's not apples-to-apples anymore.
  - parasubvert 12y ago
    "If you introduce Glacier then it's not apples-to-apples anymore." This is a thread about storage costs for backup as a service, so I felt at least it's in the same family of tree-bearing fruit ;)