On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 09:04, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
<tdteoenming(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sigh...
I am sorely disappointed.
You shouldn't be. An enterpise level RAID-able 8TB HDD costs perhaps
$200 with large volume discount, so allowing for some redundancy and
hardware failures your chosen provider will need to provide somewhere
between $2,000 and $3,000 of drives, plus the NAS chassis space, just
for you. There may be some additional savings if they're assuming
data de-duplication with other clients, but that's unquantifiable at
this point. To be a viable business they need to recover the costs of
all that, plus operating costs (rack space, power & cooling), plus
some profit over the lifetime of the drives - say 5 years. Just
thinking it through says there's no way you're doing this in the cloud
for less than $1,000/year with any kind of cloud HDD-based approach.
--
Andy
The only person to have all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe