Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availability

Re:Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availa... by rugmug5 on Thursday July 23, 2015 @12:09PM (#9936651)

Once the free period is over the 100PB will cost $1 million per month in storage fees alone. Will the free month(s) even cover the retrieval and transfer fees to take 100PB out of another cloud?

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Re:Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availa... by low_battery on Thursday July 23, 2015 @01:00PM (#9937006)

To store 100PB, one can always buy 50.000 hard drives. Would only cost $2-3 million of initial payment. I wonder how much maintenance would cost to provide same availability with near storage.

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Re:Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availa... by dekhn on Thursday July 23, 2015 @02:33PM (#9937603)

Don't forget the full-time admins and hwops people. Operations costs are going to dwarf the capital investment.

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Re:Google Cloud Storage Nearline graduates to general availa... by rugmug5 on Thursday July 23, 2015 @03:17PM (#9937858)

Or you could leave it in the cloud where it already is and not transfer it to Google's cloud. I wasn't suggesting building your own...

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