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Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

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Post by copperx » Sun, Jul 30, 2017, 10:32 PM UTC

PhantomGremlin wrote: post #125

Waterluvian wrote: post #92

Am I doing the math wrong or is this $4/mo for me to dump 1TB of copies of my family albums and whatnot into for long term cold storage?

Can you make do with storing only 50 GB? That's $0.99/month from Apple. Can you make do with storing only 200 GB? That's $2.99/month from Apple. No extra charge to get your data out. The point is that for individuals it might make more sense to consider "friendlier" storage options. These types of services don't seem to be tailored to storing "family albums". https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201238

Agreed. But I wouldn't trust Apple with my data; iCloud has lost some of my iWork files and has failed to sync important Apple Notes when changing phones. This was during the start of iCloud, so reliability might be better now.

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

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Post by IanCal » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 11:48 AM UTC

copperx wrote: post #107

IanCal wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A less seen cost is for the various operations. Regularly pushing lots of small files on S3 can get expensive. $1/200k files ($0.005 per 1k PUT requests).

Not to mention the minimum file size charge, which I think was a few kb per file in infrequent access S3.

Thanks, I'd not considered that one before, I'll make sure to keep an eye on that.

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

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Post by fweespeech » Wed, Aug 02, 2017, 9:00 PM UTC

jo909 wrote: post #135

fweespeech wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Experience. If you dig into the billing information and/or actually attempt to create a cloud project it'll tell you there is $40/year minimum. On OVH you create an "OpenStack/Cloud" project -> They charge you $40 -> Then you have use of the cloud storage.

It was 10€ in prepaid credit for me just yesterday, Which is valid for 13 months IIRC

Ah perhaps it changed then.

I opened my account awhile ago via OVH CA in USD.

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

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Post by ascendantlogic » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 2:17 PM UTC

copperx wrote: post #107

IanCal wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A less seen cost is for the various operations. Regularly pushing lots of small files on S3 can get expensive. $1/200k files ($0.005 per 1k PUT requests).

Not to mention the minimum file size charge, which I think was a few kb per file in infrequent access S3.

IA is only applicable for items that are 128kb or larger in size. Also Glacier adds 32kb of glacier data to each object as well as 8kb of standard tier storage per object. S3 is really inefficient for huge numbers of small files.