Warren Young wrote: > On Feb 15, 2019, at 1:14 AM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming > <tdteoenming at gmail.com> wrote: > >> >>>> Could you recommend affordable and reliable cloud storage for 50 TB >>>> of data? >>> >> My budget is around USD$50 per year. >> > > The cheapest RAID-friendly drives we’re buying these days are about US > $37/TB in low quantities. > > A big data warehouser will be getting a substantial price break on their > drives, but even halving the payoff time, you’re still asking the cloud > storage provider to accept a payoff time in the 18 year range. And > that’s ignoring the cost of rack space, computers to run the drives, > networking, bandwidth, staff, redundancy, drive turnover... > > There’s nothing magical about The Cloud that makes everything cheaper. > They still have to buy the same components you and I do, then they have > to pay someone to manage it all, someone else to house it all, etc. > > You’re *dreaming*. $38/tb? Google shopping shows me a 4TB WD Red at $110. A two-drive esata bay is under $100. Btw, for anything like this, DO NOT BUY consumer grade drives. Make *sure* they're NAS-rated, like WD Red or Seagate Ironwolf. mark