Looking at diskprices.com, lowest prices for storage are around $8 (used) or $15 (new). I didn’t look too hard, but a 30TB SSD for $80 (~$2.5/TB) seems wrong?
100K TB * $15/TB = $1.5 million
Assuming 100PB is the amount of data, we’d also need redundancy. Idk what best practices would be, but I’ll say 3ish copies, so 300PB total.
So a grand total of ~$5 million.
Which is crazy cheap, all things considered. Like, it would be no problem for a single rich person to handle that.
Hell, subsidize/give away cheap little computers that you just plug power and an Ethernet cable into. Raspberry pi + 4TB drive ($60) + casing would be like… $100? Though I guess you’d need 75K of them, and the cost per TB is pretty bad.
If we stick with $40 of overhead for rpi etc, that’s $320 for 20TB ($16/TB), and we’d need 300PB/(20TB/unit) = 15K units. And at $320 each, all in would be $4.8 million.
The software seems to exist for connecting them all… So idk seems like it would be absolutely feasible? Would be interested to learn if I’m missing a major cost.
So about 104,857,600 GB? You’d need 105,000 people with 1 TB each to save that. Or…
Assuming you bought 30 TB SSDs, you’d need about 3,500 of those, costing €80 each.
That’d be €280k, but let’s round it to €300k.
If every person spent €960 (or €80 per month), then each person could get 12 of those SSDs. You’d need 8,750 people to do that.
Should be doable if crowdfunded by a community, or if you had some big donor. Then you’d need to connect it.
Looking at diskprices.com, lowest prices for storage are around $8 (used) or $15 (new). I didn’t look too hard, but a 30TB SSD for $80 (~$2.5/TB) seems wrong?
100K TB * $15/TB = $1.5 million
Assuming 100PB is the amount of data, we’d also need redundancy. Idk what best practices would be, but I’ll say 3ish copies, so 300PB total.
So a grand total of ~$5 million.
Which is crazy cheap, all things considered. Like, it would be no problem for a single rich person to handle that.
Hell, subsidize/give away cheap little computers that you just plug power and an Ethernet cable into. Raspberry pi + 4TB drive ($60) + casing would be like… $100? Though I guess you’d need 75K of them, and the cost per TB is pretty bad.
This guy is 20TB for $280: https://a.co/d/17UOtFi
If we stick with $40 of overhead for rpi etc, that’s $320 for 20TB ($16/TB), and we’d need 300PB/(20TB/unit) = 15K units. And at $320 each, all in would be $4.8 million.
The software seems to exist for connecting them all… So idk seems like it would be absolutely feasible? Would be interested to learn if I’m missing a major cost.