Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?

Re:Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup... by msk20 on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:50PM (#26920644)

I don't really know much about optimizing storage costs, But You could learn from storage giants.

Example is Blackblaze storage pod 6.0 according to them it holds 0.5PB with a cost of 10k$, you will need about 20*10K$ = 200K$ + Maintenance(They also publish failure rates) , The schematics and everything is in their website and according to them they have already a supplier who provides them with such devices which you could probably buy from. Note: This was published 2016, they probably have Pod 7.0 by now so cost may be better.

Reference: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv...

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Re:Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup... by dsyrk on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:56PM (#26921871)

fyi that 10k includes no drives.

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Re:Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup... by sireat on Saturday April 24, 2021 @04:08AM (#26923189)

Reading: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv... it seems the drives are included.

That 10.3k includes drives but you have to assemble the pod yourself.

For 12.8k you get drives and assembled pod from 3rd party manufacturer.

Backblaze pays about 8.7k at a scale for the whole enchilada

Those numbers do not make sense if we exclude drives. The server itself is not that expensive(2-3k tops) without the drives.

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