Comment by rasz

9 days ago

>AWS S3 has pricing of about $0.023/GB/month, which means ... about $20k/month

or outright buying hardware capable of storing 850TB for the same $20K one time payment. Gives you some perspective on how overpriced AWS is.

Where are you getting 850TB of enterprise storage for $20k?

I had 500TB of object storage priced last year and it came out closer to $300k

  • That's including the enterprise premium for software, hardware support, and licenses. Building this in-house using open source software (e.g. Ceph) on OEM hardware will be cheaper by an order of magnitude.

    You of course need people to maintain it -- the $300k turnkey solution might be the better option depending on current staff.

  • 136tb for $3k (used gen 2 epyc hardware and refurb <1 hour 16tb hdd's) they're zero risk after firmware validation and 1 full drive read and write.

  • Priced out by whom? What kind of object storage? Were you looking at the price of drives, or the price of a complete solution delivered by some company?