BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god
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@DustinB3403 said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
So signing up for a new B2 account, and setting my daily storage cap to $20 allots me 120,010 GB of storage space.
That's amazing.
So that works out to ~$600 per month for 120TB.. Dang!
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@DustinB3403 Nice better than Amazon S3 or Glacier!
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@dafyre said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@DustinB3403 said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
So signing up for a new B2 account, and setting my daily storage cap to $20 allots me 120,010 GB of storage space.
That's amazing.
So that works out to ~$600 per month for 120TB.. Dang!
Definitely not cheap!
Wouldn't colo be cheaper?
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@Dashrender said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@dafyre said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@DustinB3403 said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
So signing up for a new B2 account, and setting my daily storage cap to $20 allots me 120,010 GB of storage space.
That's amazing.
So that works out to ~$600 per month for 120TB.. Dang!
Definitely not cheap!
Wouldn't colo be cheaper?
Yes, almost certainly. You could rack a SAM-SD cluster with 120TB in it. Wouldn't be SO much cheaper, because you need several U to get that amount of capacity and you'd lose flexibility. At that price and size, you can definitely get colo cheaper but it isn't trivial to do so.
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And doing your own colo, you'd have to pick what your goals are. You could do a single box without backup or redundancy (beyond RAID.) That would be way cheaper, and probably way faster, but if it failed, you'd have to upload everything again. But if this is tertiary backup, your 1 in the 3-2-1 structure, then it could easily make sense. And if you have the colo for other purposes already, then cheaper still.
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@Dashrender said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@dafyre said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@DustinB3403 said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
So signing up for a new B2 account, and setting my daily storage cap to $20 allots me 120,010 GB of storage space.
That's amazing.
So that works out to ~$600 per month for 120TB.. Dang!
Definitely not cheap!
Wouldn't colo be cheaper?
Whoops, I read 120 TB wrong - I mistakenly read that as 120 GB... Yeah OK $600/month is pretty good price for this much storage.
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@Dashrender said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@Dashrender said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@dafyre said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@DustinB3403 said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
So signing up for a new B2 account, and setting my daily storage cap to $20 allots me 120,010 GB of storage space.
That's amazing.
So that works out to ~$600 per month for 120TB.. Dang!
Definitely not cheap!
Wouldn't colo be cheaper?
Whoops, I read 120 TB wrong - I mistakenly read that as 120 GB... Yeah OK $600/month is pretty good price for this much storage.
It's good, but still very beatable with a colo-hosted SAM-SD approach.
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@scottalanmiller said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@Dashrender said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@Dashrender said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@dafyre said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@DustinB3403 said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
So signing up for a new B2 account, and setting my daily storage cap to $20 allots me 120,010 GB of storage space.
That's amazing.
So that works out to ~$600 per month for 120TB.. Dang!
Definitely not cheap!
Wouldn't colo be cheaper?
Whoops, I read 120 TB wrong - I mistakenly read that as 120 GB... Yeah OK $600/month is pretty good price for this much storage.
It's good, but still very beatable with a colo-hosted SAM-SD approach.
You're figuring before the cost of renting out colo space, power heating and cooling etc.
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@DustinB3403 said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@scottalanmiller said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@Dashrender said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@Dashrender said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@dafyre said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@DustinB3403 said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
So signing up for a new B2 account, and setting my daily storage cap to $20 allots me 120,010 GB of storage space.
That's amazing.
So that works out to ~$600 per month for 120TB.. Dang!
Definitely not cheap!
Wouldn't colo be cheaper?
Whoops, I read 120 TB wrong - I mistakenly read that as 120 GB... Yeah OK $600/month is pretty good price for this much storage.
It's good, but still very beatable with a colo-hosted SAM-SD approach.
You're figuring before the cost of renting out colo space, power heating and cooling etc.
Yes, well colo is REALLY easy to price since it is a set fee. Like $100/mo for a 2U slot. If you can get 120TB into a 2U, you are golden. That's not easy to do, but certainly is possible. Combine that with a RAID 7 array, software RAID, free storage OS and pretty quickly you've got a sub-$10K server being hosted at $100/mo. That's a $500/mo skew.
At $500/mo, you have $6K/year. In two years you are at break even. At four years, you have saved like $10K!
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@scottalanmiller said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
d pretty quickly you've got a sub-$10K server being hosted at $100/mo. That's a $500/mo skew.
The time value of money and your time managing the device are the next things to consider in this cost equation.
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@Dashrender said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@scottalanmiller said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
d pretty quickly you've got a sub-$10K server being hosted at $100/mo. That's a $500/mo skew.
The time value of money and your time managing the device are the next things to consider in this cost equation.
If you check the math, I included some in there already. Maybe too much, maybe not enough, but some is there.
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@scottalanmiller said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@Dashrender said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
@scottalanmiller said in BackBlaze B2 beating those prices down. . my god:
d pretty quickly you've got a sub-$10K server being hosted at $100/mo. That's a $500/mo skew.
The time value of money and your time managing the device are the next things to consider in this cost equation.
If you check the math, I included some in there already. Maybe too much, maybe not enough, but some is there.
Missed your new post before making mine.
