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In Reply to: RE: in the Cloud ... posted by maxim on April 25, 2012 at 00:29:03
Amazon S3 seems to be a good choice, especially since they keep improving their streaming capabilities.
During the days when I was able to write off the Amazon S3 storage costs as part of my business, I was experimenting with it, and it worked fine for streaming to my Squeezebox Touch. It still gets to be a bit steep if you're intending to store a lot of high definition format files (24/192), because these FLACs are sizeable. But the monthly charge is steadily going down, and I think this service is competitively priced.
If memory serves, I was paying 11 cents per gigabyte back then. Not sure how much is it now.
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A Terabyte would cost you over $100 a month. You could buy a Terabyte drive every month for less. I know that doesn't give you the same functionality as cloud storage but it points out how expensive it is.
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"If memory serves, I was paying 11 cents per gigabyte back then. Not sure how much is it now."
Last I checked, it's about the same. Not surprising as hard drive prices have gone up since the floods in Thailand. It will be a while before they get back to decreasing. Hopefully, I won't run out of space before then, but I am down to my last Terrabyte. :-)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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I'm seeing 2TB drives for close to $100. That's about where they were before the flood.
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Good news. I am down to my last Terabyte. Perhaps hard drives will start reappearing in Frys.com's weekly specials soon.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
It depends on the make. Reliable makes such as Toshiba are still expensive.
I avoid Samsungs and Seagates either because poor reliability with the ones I have had. The Samsung warranty in Europe is not worth the paper it is written on.
The sarcastic moniker was well earned I wonder if any of those Hitachis escaped self-destruction.
Now, I have generally had good luck with Western Digital and fair to so-so with Seagate.
I've had one Maxtor, one Seagate and one Western Digital drive fail. I suspect that it's specific models and manufacturing plants that are at issue, not specific brands. I happen to have many more Seagate spinners than any other brand and have been satisfied with their reliability. Most have been 1.5 TB models.
I haven't tried Toshiba.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
I have had 3 Samsungs fail after 1-2 years. I definitely hold this against them.
Seagates tend to be variable wrt noise and vibration
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I run mine 24/7 and have been for a few years. I have several friends who have been doing the same. I do take them out of their cases and have a fan blowing across them which keeps them cool to the touch.
I know my small sample is too few to be statistically significant but I'm happy with them. I've had several Western Digital fail. One was the controller and not the drive so when you do have one crap out it is worth swapping the controller to see if that fixes it.
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I've had good and bad luck with Seagate and Western Digital over the years. They've all had their ups and downs. I'm perfectly happy with my Seagate drives from the past few years.
Seagate and Western Digital are the dominant players in the business of spinning rust. The other two with minimal market share are Toshiba & Hitachi.... but WD is in the process of buying Hitachi's disk drive business.
That leaves Toshiba as the low volume odd man out.
Samsung's spinning rust division was recently acquired by Seagate.
IBM's HDD business was acquired by Hitachi almost 10 years ago.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Intel still builds SSDs. That said, the economies are becoming less favorable for the rusty contingent. Good riddance to them.
But it's still way cheaper to hook up terabytes of storage on spinning drives. I don't deny that consolidation has occured. It's just not the wave of the future.
Data storage in a cloud is inherenty compromised and insecure.
Also it's not fast enough yet for the majority.
I've been in telecom for thirty years. I can tell you for a fact that the providers want your data and your info as marketing assets.
If you think otherwise you are not well informed.
Caveat emptor, never pay an exploiter to exploit you.
SSD prices are dropping; just bought a Crucial 256G for £0.62 per GB, for storing key music files on for use.
The cost penalty is down to about 10 times.
The rust spinners better get their act in order and resume lowering prices. If they don't, in a few years they will be toast. SSDs will be cheaper as well as faster, quieter and less thirsty of power.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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