[thelist] massive disk space for image storage

[Anthony Baratta]

Taking the request at face value: let's assume you need 1/2 that now and last half within 3 years. 

You might be better off with a cheap colo for your own hardware and a few external raid2 devices. 1/2 a rack is about $600/month, (maybe you can find a 1/4 rack), and a 12 bay QNap ($2,500 plus hard drives, 4tbs are about $175 each) can get you 12 -24tb (depending on how you co figure it there can be a 16gb cap on file system size. )

http://www.qnap.com/useng/index.php?lang=en-us&sn=862&c=355&sc=526&t=2404&n=17986

This type of unit has FTP / web interface etc. Might be worth the upfront costs and pay for itself based on cloud services. 

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Anthony Baratta


On Aug 18, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz> wrote:

> On 08/18/2013 12:17 PM, Joel Canfield wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 
> -->> been there, been there, I repeat, been there...
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