100G sounds like, you know, _a lot_.
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I've lost all sense of it so I appreciate the perspective
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Do you have a rough idea of what a unit of storage cost you? It has to be backed up at etc. So maybe draw the line at some number of times what the user pays?
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No, I really don't. I know what I pay for servers and hard drives (which are rare purchases), and monthly colocation fees, but not really sure how to derive a per-byte cost from that.
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I mean you know the costs of the disks themselves, right? Do you have an expected lifetime you amortize that fixed cost over the lifetime especially for back ups and remote sites etc.
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The expected lifetime is the missing part of the equation. I do all my own backups so it's all just a question of "how long will these boxes of disks last for"
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2 to 4 years tops. You back them up to other disks, which costs time and bandwidth and disks
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Right, each byte stored equals a byte backed up (there are two backups, and the backups compress to about half the size of the original). The bandwidth for backups is within the same rack so not a factor.
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Are the machines RAIDed or anything like that?
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Everything is RAID 6. The archive servers back up to a machine in the same rack over NFS, and the whole enchilada is periodically synced to a NAS enclosure I lug around.
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Honestly the limiting factor on Pinboard's ultimate growth is my ability to lift the NAS enclosure.
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