One time then? There are backup services that actually charge a single amount? An amount that also beats consumer hdds by quite a bit?
Do they put it on tape once and store it in some warehouse until you pay to access it?
5k/month? That’s a whole lot. Probably not much when you have 100k people, but still.
I could easily set up a PB server with raid for half a years worth of that. Throw a second one in for another half a year at a different location, heck add a third. Were is this money going?
One time then? There are backup services that actually charge a single amount? An amount that also beats consumer hdds by quite a bit?
Do they put it on tape once and store it in some warehouse until you pay to access it?
oh you mean the cloud price, that’s per month.
5k/month? That’s a whole lot. Probably not much when you have 100k people, but still.
I could easily set up a PB server with raid for half a years worth of that. Throw a second one in for another half a year at a different location, heck add a third. Were is this money going?
Insurance, salaries, profit margins.
Perhaps also an off-site backup ;-)
I wouldn’t go that far