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Once the free period is over the 100PB will cost $1 million per month in storage fees alone. Will the free month(s) even cover the retrieval and transfer fees t

by rugmug5 11y ago

Once the free period is over the 100PB will cost $1 million per month in storage fees alone. Will the free month(s) even cover the retrieval and transfer fees to take 100PB out of another cloud?

low_battery 11y ago
To store 100PB, one can always buy 50.000 hard drives. Would only cost $2-3 million of initial payment. I wonder how much maintenance would cost to provide same availability with near storage.
- dekhn 11y ago
  Don't forget the full-time admins and hwops people. Operations costs are going to dwarf the capital investment.
  - rugmug5 11y ago
    Or you could leave it in the cloud where it already is and not transfer it to Google's cloud. I wasn't suggesting building your own...