[thelist] massive disk space for image storage

Joel Canfield joel at spinhead.com
Sun Aug 18 13:17:08 CDT 2013


Amazon S3 would be over $1,000 a month for 12TB. Glacier is much less than
that.

Storing 12TB of images online seems like someone's solving the wrong
problem.


On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz> wrote:

> Please check my math as this seems rather expensive.  Client needs to
> store massive numbers of images for their project.  I estimate 400,000
> images, all excessively high quality, large dimension. Minimum of 15, maybe
> 30 MegaPixels per image.  I know MB and MP will not be 1:1, but just the
> same I need to make up some guesstimate. So:
>
> 400000 images  * 30MB/image = 12,000,000 MB  est. = 12,000 GB = 12 TB
>
> Looking around, be it VPS or Dedicated, this will take more than several
> costly plans.  One reasonably cost-effective source does 1.5TB for under
> $600.
>
> Am I missing anthing yet?
>
> Amazon storage, cloud storage, etc. - I have not had to go there yet.
> Suggestions?
>
> -Bob
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