undefined | Better HN

0 pointszamadatix3y ago0 comments

Even the Amazon comments know that's a scam (well that and unavailable to actually purchase) and there is a reason the next disk in the list is 5x the price:

> A 2T SSD for $38 sound to good to be true and of course they are a scam, don't buy they don't work

But that's not even the biggest oversight here on storage, these drives also need to be attached to something which will need to be cooled, networked, and powered in a reliable enough way the service continues operating when you have 10s of thousands of these. You'll also need to store more than exactly the amount of data since you can't just lose videos any time there is a failure.

In all it's still going to be dwarfed by encoding and bandwidth costs but that doesn't mean 15k/PB is any less an order of magnitude or two off on storage costs.

0 comments

alex_young3y ago

I'm really sorry I posted a price I found on a simple Google search. Let's say you're right and SSDs are actually $150/TB. Now our 1 PB is still just $150k. Not even a fraction of revenue worth worrying about.

zamadatixOP3y ago

If the question was "how much would it cost to buy 1 PB worth of consumer grade SSDs" $150k sounds like a great answer. Going on the 1 PB/day Number that's ~$55M/year for some raw disk. Add another order of magnitude for needing more than just a raw disk to store 1 PB/day, as already explained, and that's ~500M/year on storage related costs. If you're hellbent on saying this half billion/year doesn't matter because the bandwidth cost (which is not paid per connection btw) would be much larger then sure but it's still unrelated to the cost of a standalone consumer SSD.

alex_young3y ago

That's not what I said. You've done this twice now, and I really wish you would respect the good faith principal others in this community value. I'll leave it at that.

1 more reply

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointszamadatix3y ago0 comments

Even the Amazon comments know that's a scam (well that and unavailable to actually purchase) and there is a reason the next disk in the list is 5x the price:

> A 2T SSD for $38 sound to good to be true and of course they are a scam, don't buy they don't work

In all it's still going to be dwarfed by encoding and bandwidth costs but that doesn't mean 15k/PB is any less an order of magnitude or two off on storage costs.

0 comments

alex_young3y ago

zamadatixOP3y ago

alex_young3y ago

That's not what I said. You've done this twice now, and I really wish you would respect the good faith principal others in this community value. I'll leave it at that.

1 more reply

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse