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0 pointsjagger274y ago0 comments

10PB with their pricing calculator comes out to over $60,000/mo. Feels like a lot.

edit: perhaps their RCS option would be cheaper if you know exactly how much data you need to store in advance.

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To be fair, purchasing and hosting even the most basic mirrored RAID array of that scale comes to well over half a million for the disks alone. Then you need to manage them.

daper4y ago

10x Supermicro SSG-6049P-E1CR60H servers (60 x 3,5" HDD in 4U enclosure) - $5k each

600x WESTERN DIGITAL Ultrastar DC HC550 18TB (10800PB in total) - $500 each

~$350k in hardware, up to 20kW energy consumption, should fit in two rack towers. You can host it for about $1.5k somewhere. All assuming no redundancy :)

spookthesunset4y ago

Don’t forget labor. You need to find talent to manage your little data center. And deal with it when it shits the bed at 4:12am on Christmas morning.

So toss in at least one SRE type person. Say $200k/year.

Since you only have one, they are gonna be on call 24/7, so assume you’ll burn them out after a year and a half and need to hire a new one....

Since redundancy is a thing, double that $350k. And 10pb is what they have now so double it again for 20pb. Add in $10k per rack for switches, routers, wires, etc.

So probably you are looking at a million dollars of capital plus labor to actually execute on this. And don’t forget the lead time might be a month to get the hardware and a week or two to install it. Plus all the configuration management that needs to be built up. Not to mention monitoring. So maybe a quarter of work just to have it functional.

I haven’t even factored in opportunity costs. What could this business be doing that adds more value than building out a little data center?

I dunno. Maybe it does make sense to manage your own hardware. But it helps to calculate the entire cost of ownership, not just the cost of the servers.

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