On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 09:04, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming tdteoenming@gmail.com wrote:
Sigh...
I am sorely disappointed.
You shouldn't be. An enterpise level RAID-able 8TB HDD costs perhaps $200 with large volume discount, so allowing for some redundancy and hardware failures your chosen provider will need to provide somewhere between $2,000 and $3,000 of drives, plus the NAS chassis space, just for you. There may be some additional savings if they're assuming data de-duplication with other clients, but that's unquantifiable at this point. To be a viable business they need to recover the costs of all that, plus operating costs (rack space, power & cooling), plus some profit over the lifetime of the drives - say 5 years. Just thinking it through says there's no way you're doing this in the cloud for less than $1,000/year with any kind of cloud HDD-based approach.