Introducing Google Cloud Storage Nearline

Post by manacit » Wed, Mar 11, 2015, 2:47 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #21

nda wrote: post #19

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It's a bit apples to oranges comparison. Dropbox is a consumer product, like Google Drive. Nearline is targeted to app developers and enterprises

Exactly, so why would the lower-level service aimed at big slow transfers be more expensive than a full-featured product?

Post by thrownaway2424 » Wed, Mar 11, 2015, 2:54 PM UTC

manacit wrote: post #31

sp332 wrote: post #21

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Exactly, so why would the lower-level service aimed at big slow transfers be more expensive than a full-featured product?

There's a few reasons: * Dropbox doesn't guarantee 11 9s like this service does - when I'm backing critical data up, I want to make sure it's _there_. * Dropbox likely wouldn't take kindly to me storing 10PB, whereas that is what this service is designed for. * I've got SLAs and guaranteed speeds with this, Dropbox isn't designed for me to suddenly download 10PB very quickly.

Post by fuzzythinker » Wed, Mar 11, 2015, 2:54 PM UTC

omh wrote: post #10

The detailed pricing is at https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#nearline-pricing In short, if I'm understanding correctly: $0.01 per GB per month storage $0.01 per GB retrieval Normal egress fees on top, so additional ~$0.10 per GB if you want to retrieve outside of Google Cloud. Early deletion fee. Effectively just a minimum storage charge of 1 month. It seems this is cheaper than Glacier and quite a bit simpler…

Post by knocte » Wed, Mar 11, 2015, 3:01 PM UTC

Post by mseebach » Wed, Mar 11, 2015, 3:03 PM UTC

nda wrote: post #15

bbrazil wrote: post #12

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My guess would be disk drives that are otherwise used for I/O intensive purposes, and where there's tons of unused/wasted space. 4MB/s is only around 4% of the bandwidth of a modern 1TB hard disk.

You can store 1 Pb and get 4000 MB/s