Check my math on online storage prices?

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Could somebody check my math? This seems high.

I am computing "$ per GB for 5 years usage" assuming I buy 4 TB.

I come out like this:
  • Amazon regular 0.22 GB/$
  • Amazon glacier 1.67 GB/$
  • Google 0.34 GB/$

That seems high. As I said that is for 5 years.
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

A 3 TB disk for $110 is 27 GB/$ and lasts until it breaks.
 
But your not buying a single disk, and hoping it lasts 5 years.

Your paying for your data to be there, always available, anytime you want it.

In the case of s3, it's redundant across all availability zones in that area (I think that is 4 in all cases).
 
Yes I am fully aware of that.

I was just trying to make sure I'm not screwing up the math.
 
Greetings

uOpt said:
I was just trying to make sure I'm not screwing up the math.
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You are "screwing up the math"

Standard, Glacier

First 1 TB / month $0.085 / GB, $0.010 / GB (from the web page)
1 TB / month $85.00 / TB, $10.00 / TB (1TB = 1000 GB)
4 TB / month $340.00, $40.00 (you want 4 TB)
4 TB / year $4080.00, $480.00 (12 months in a year)
4 TB / 5 yrs $20400.00, $2400.00 (by 5 years)

per GB then divide by 4000 $5.10, $0.60 (4000GB in 4TB)

Its VERY expensive storage whichever way you look at it.

Cheers
 
Cloud storage gets really expensive, fast. Because the recent trend many companies are now locked into the platform realizing that starting out it was cheap, but as you grow it becomes a joke with the current pricing scheme.

Depending on what you're intending on using Amazon's services for it might be for you. For data backup I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Guys like DropBox get away with it for a lot of other reasons.
 
I have GB/$, you have $/GB.

I'm afraid we are both correct.
 
Amazon Glacier - $0.01 / GB

That seems cheap to me :)

You can run your own "cloud" with NAS too. Synology Cloud Station for one.
 
1 cent per GB - per month.

Multiply with 12, multiply with 5 years or whatever years you want, then scale to 4 TB or whatever you need.
 
To me these services only make sense for small but important data. For that, they're good value/money/peace of mind (well, if you use superstrong encryption that is, I'm not giving data to google).

If it costs thousands to store what you need, then spend thousands on something else, your own backup server hosted somewhere not your office/home for example. Or even two such servers at two places.
 
Why not look at something like CrashPlan or Backblaze? A fixed, low, price for unlimited data. If you prepay I think you can get CrashPlan pricing down to about $3 a month for a single machine.
 
patrickdk said:
But your not buying a single disk, and hoping it lasts 5 years.

Your paying for your data to be there, always available, anytime you want it.
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Not only that you are paying for someone to handle the various hard drive problems and recover your data as necessary.

But for most data the cost of the service is more than the value of the data.
 
Ripley said:
Why not look at something like CrashPlan or Backblaze? A fixed, low, price for unlimited data. If you prepay I think you can get CrashPlan pricing down to about $3 a month for a single machine.
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I want a raw rsync-over-ssh target, and I want free choice of filesystem.
 
GeorgeHR said:
Not only that you are paying for someone to handle the various hard drive problems and recover your data as necessary.

But for most data the cost of the service is more than the value of the data.
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Yeah, but compared to current 3 TB consumer drive prices Amazon regular wants 126 times as much money, and for glacier it is 16x.

BTW, what kind of software interface does glacier have?
 
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