Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month

Post by aschatten » Fri, Mar 06, 2020, 11:59 PM UTC

prophesi wrote: post #125

Hamuko wrote: post #116

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Do you make anything from it?

For the first few months, you'll basically have all of your Sia drained as your contracts start coming in and your host wallet gives them collateral. But yeah, my contracts only recently started to complete, and I've got the amount of Sia I started with at the very least. So... Yes, but probably not very much? Particularly when accounting for the price drop in Sia. Edit: If you do decide to host, it'll likely be abou…

Post by toomuchtodo » Sat, Mar 07, 2020, 12:05 AM UTC

BrandonY wrote: post #178

toomuchtodo wrote: post #172

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Thank you so much! Is there a limit on size of objects besides the 5TB max described in the docs, similar to other object stores where multiparts have lower limits than the total composed object?

There is also a lower bound of 0 bytes :) You can compose a 4TB object with a 1 byte object, or you can compose 32 150GB objects, just so long as the destination object doesn't go over 5 terabytes.

Post by chx » Sat, Mar 07, 2020, 12:07 AM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #147

TrueDuality wrote: post #88

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Backblaze is operating at their own economy of scale with dedicated deals with suppliers, custom bare bones hardware, optimized processes, etc. It's always more expensive starting out as a little company for raw hardware and processes until you're big enough and mature enough to get the deals and processes in place. That is also not the only service that Backblaze offers and wasn't their first. It could be that B2 is…

If all their other customers on the $5/month unlimited backup plan store less than 1TB, but since it’s really aggressive about backing up everything (no, please don’t back up my steam games) on your computer I think they go over that.

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 07, 2020, 12:24 AM UTC

rob-olmos wrote: post #24

How did they go from 8 SATA ports to 32 SATA devices? The linked cable uses a SAS host/connector. Was a SAS card left out of the parts list?

Post by FalconSensei » Sat, Mar 07, 2020, 12:25 AM UTC

kmod wrote: post #15

I worked on the design of Dropbox's exabyte-scale storage system, and from that experience I can say that these numbers are all extremely optimistic, even with their "you can do it cheaper if you only target 95% uptime" caveat. Networking is much more expensive, labor is much more expensive, space is much more expensive, depreciation is faster than they say, etc etc. I don't think the authors have ever done any actua…