RAID V4
From Sigmon
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VS Cloud Storage
- Assumes a $10/mo usage to run a single storage server
Amazon Cloud Drive
- unlimited storage for music for the $20/mo plan
Storage by Content Type
- Total Usage 3.4T (3400 GB)
- Music Usage ~ 280G
- Data Storage (Not music) ~ 3120 GB
- cloud drive pricing http://screenshot.grepped.org/2011/07/08/12/10/56/clouddrive.jpg
- 280GB of music costs $20/mo (unlimited special deal)
- 1000GB of data costs $1000/yr ($83.33/mo)
- 3120GB of data (round up to 4000GB) which would cost ~ $333.33 / mo
- Music and Data cost per month would likely be ~ $333.00/mo -- way too high
Pineapple Generation
Research
- Newegg 2TB drives, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148413
5x $179.99 - Seagate Barracuda LP ST32000542AS 2TB 5900 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive -Bare Drive
10TB TOTAL RAW CAPACITY for $900, 8000 GB for file system, formatted approx 7.2TB
- Newegg 2TB drives, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148681
5x $79.80 - Seagate Barracuda Green ST2000DL003 2TB 5900 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
holyfuck it's $0.03 / gb
>>> (79.80 * 5) / (2000 * 5) 0.039899999999999998
TCO
Fancy Shmancy total cost of ownership
- Total Drive Cost: $400
- Assumes a $10/mo usage to run a single storage server
- Assuming a new drive system is purchased every two years
- $320 / yr operation
- $200 / yr on storage
- $120 / yr on power
- Monthly $26.00
