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- jordan314, on 11/11/2009, -2/+375Dugg for powers-of-2 pricing
- ExSlashdotter, on 11/11/2009, -3/+302To all the people claiming that the pricing is way too high because you can buy a 1TB drive for $100:
You have no idea what real IT equipment costs. $4,000/year for 16TB is pretty unbelievable. I just finished pricing out some SAN equipment, and its looking like I can get 8TB in an iSCSI SAN for somewhere in the $40k range, or 8TB in a fiber SAN for in the $50k range. Then you have to deal with maintenance and running the thing too.
I don't know what levels of HA (high availability) and DR (disaster recovery) google promises you with this setup, but I imagine its a lot better than an attached friggin sata drive.
disclaimer: I'm not saying enterprise IT should put all their data out on the google cloud. obviously. I'm just saying, the pricing is really pretty good when you look at it. - Brak710101, on 11/11/2009, -12/+161Well, you're forgetting the cost of electricity, internet connectivity, and the fact that there is probably a second drive that offers data replication in case of failure.
- Supertrout, on 11/11/2009, -4/+104I'll wait for the 100 Terabyte drive so I can store all of the crappy Digg comments. .
- Mejogid, on 11/11/2009, -1/+90You're also paying for bandwidth to access that service from wherever you chose, automatic backup of that data and integration with google's services. Of course, since this can only be used for gmail and picasa it seems more of a proof of concept that they'll flesh out rather than a serious consumer orientated offering (note the lack of big press releases). Frankly, I've just had two large external drives die on me just outside of warranty so I'd appreciate a system along these lines.
- carlosabs, on 11/11/2009, -7/+85No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- ptoomey, on 11/11/2009, -2/+73And the spare hot drive. And the spare standby drive. And the mirror in another town in case your house burns down. And the backup equipment at both facilities. And the UPS battery system. And the network interconnects. And someone to manage all of that. Yep, cheap enough!
Obviously this is not for junior's porn collection. This is for companies who need absolute insurance that their data will always be safe and available. - Shoebox639, on 11/11/2009, -1/+64If anyone is shocked at the price, you are not just paying for the storage space. That is cheap, no doubt. You are paying for probably raid 5, access from anywhere, bandwidth to access it and security that goes into protecting it. But $256 of 1TB of data that will never degrade, get lost, stolen is pretty good.
- tnoy, on 11/11/2009, -1/+61Its a rather bad idea for porn; they have a 16TB cap on storage, which makes it largely useless for a small porn collection.
- x986123, on 11/11/2009, -62/+121WTF? $256 a year for 1TB of photos? Just go out and buy a 1TB Hard Drive for $100!
- AlyxVance, on 11/11/2009, -6/+47what the ***** is with all the haters today?
Get off digg you noobs. - Jektal, on 11/11/2009, -1/+41Well if you've got Comcast the calculation is much simpler. First month you'd get to upload 500GB, after that you'd be capped at 250GB/month. So, it should just be [Capacity in GB]/250 - 1 = Months
Which comes out to 63 months (5.333 years) to upload 16TB using Comcast's UNLIMITED internet access
/FU Comcast - inactive, on 11/11/2009, -1/+39For people bitching about the cost or how your crappy 12.99 a month ISP connection is slow, remember this service is more aimed at businesses than you to store your porn.
- Jektal, on 11/11/2009, -2/+33Actually Google is kind of famous for just using SATA drives and the like, rather than "enterprise level" hardware. Not sure what they'd be using here, but with the inherent delay from it all being cloud-based, I doubt they'd waste the money on iSCSI.
- AdmiralAcbar, on 11/11/2009, -3/+28:D
My OCD loves google at the moment (cannot do much of anything but in powers of two...) - dtfinch, on 11/11/2009, -1/+25Should take no less than 5.8 years unless I've messed up.
- Intertron, on 11/11/2009, -2/+24boom roasted
- KingGorilla, on 11/11/2009, -2/+23I'm pretty sure this is worthy of my porn collection
- Intertron, on 11/11/2009, -5/+23Good luck filling that 16TB with the crap US bandwidth and especially, upload speeds. No, literally, someone calculate it for me. Let's say you've got AT&T's most precious child, the DSL ELITE plan, with it's "up to 768Kbps" speed.
- TrevorBradley, on 11/11/2009, -2/+17And when your house burns down?
- noumuon, on 11/11/2009, -4/+19@Cavi "Well, you're forgetting the cost of electricity, internet connectivity"
- inactive, on 11/11/2009, -2/+16Who said that?
(Hint: NOT Bill Gates.) - ibdav, on 11/12/2009, -2/+15What if your house burns down? What if your residential DSL doesn't cut it for sharing whatever files you may want to share with people?
- MtheoryX, on 11/11/2009, -5/+18Not everyone is on a ***** home connection.
I'm pulling 65.69 Mb/s and pushing 49.97 Mb/s right now just from my office machine.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/619517583.png
This isn't for just your "normal" user, if ever there were such a thing. - AlyxVance, on 11/11/2009, -3/+16dugg for common sense. I'm surprised people don't understand this.
- veriix, on 11/11/2009, -1/+12Really? You did? So now you have 32tb of storage with no redundancy and 16 points of failure. You get a gold star.
- Kuestionmark, on 11/12/2009, -1/+12it's for companies.
- canthraxp, on 11/12/2009, -1/+12That's why everyone should start watching midget porn now. Smaller people = smaller images, better use of space, a higher fap:byte ratio, it's a win-win situation.
- ptoomey, on 11/11/2009, -1/+12I work for one of the biggest cloud app providers and big companies, even government agencies are jumping on the bandwagon by the thousands. Success appears to have already happened.
- pw378, on 11/11/2009, -1/+12Similar to their secondary stock offering... http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-google-is-sel ...
The issue 14.159265 new shares... (decimal digits of PI) - MtheoryX, on 11/11/2009, -1/+10@newchap:
"...you should NOT expect to replace your TV with online broadcasts..."
And why not? For me, TV and internet are coming in over the exact same bought and paid for lines, so there shouldn't be an issue. - ARTLUKM, on 11/12/2009, -2/+11@ibdav: the value of my data != the value of the hdd device. bad analogy.
- kmoed, on 11/11/2009, -1/+10Your use of caps lock does not correspond with your demand for quiet complaining people.
- piieerrrree, on 11/11/2009, -2/+11it'll get copied, not stolen.
Someone can steal your external hard-drive. - tnoy, on 11/11/2009, -1/+9You obviously have no idea what enterprise storage is.
- ninjacob, on 11/11/2009, -1/+9Its a 20% savings. I don't consider $50 a lot, but that would be a 50% savings. ***** starts adding up.
- firebhaal, on 11/12/2009, -1/+9remember in 2009 when 16 TB cost $4096 a year! lol i have that much on my old thumb drive
- L0NER, on 11/11/2009, -2/+10US upload speeds need to be alot faster before mass cloud storage is worth a damn.
- MtheoryX, on 11/11/2009, -4/+11And, god forbid, charge enough for Google to turn a profit on the service it's offering.
We can't have any of that *****, can we? /s - kaosethema, on 11/12/2009, -1/+8for private porn collections
- Mship, on 11/11/2009, -1/+8So are you saying that a company should invest in a potential market?
- veriix, on 11/11/2009, -2/+8No, you didn't.
- RocketGib, on 11/12/2009, -1/+716TB is definitely a lot of porn!
- inactive, on 11/11/2009, -6/+12Well then Google's downtime history should re-assure them.
- Intertron, on 11/11/2009, -2/+8DSL is the best I can get.
Thanks dtfinch for the calculations! I'll start uploading now. - entezami, on 11/12/2009, -1/+7you forget, that redundant services like these exist everywhere. People who are stupid enough (and lazy enough) will do this.
Take, GeekSquad. - bolbec, on 11/12/2009, -1/+7...he's in Indiana... "ISP, Indiana University - Purdue..."
- givemesnow, on 11/11/2009, -6/+12Shut the ***** up
- dtfinch, on 11/11/2009, -1/+7The cost of the server probably adds 50% to that, if they fit 16 drives in one. Then there's mirroring/backups, doubling the total cost. If a server lasts 4 years that's $75/year for hardware, decreasing every year. Maybe another $50/year electricity per TB. So the cost of hardware+electricity alone is about half the price. Then there's bandwidth, housing, and staffing costs.
But people will buy more storage than they actually use. And I bet Google gets better pricing on hardware and electricity than I do. Sounds like a pretty good business to be in. - tgc1, on 11/11/2009, -1/+7It could have been 50 cents. To some people that's a lot of money. Maybe you save another 50 cents and then you go to the dollar store and you buy something else.
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