The actual volume of data is kind of insane for distribution. You start running into many scale problems.
At ~70PB of storage, assumed redundant as well. And at ~$15/TB JUST for HDDs alone, you’re talking $2.1 million in just hard drives.
Installation, hardware, and facility costs will at least pentuple that number, if we’re being crazy conservative. Making the cost to stand up an archive $10.5 million?
During this process I found out that their finances are public and there is more reliable information out there:
$2/GB for permanent storage, overall ( $2000/TB)
The cost to store the data and run the archive is a whopping $36mill/y at the moment.
Which if you consider what they do is incredibly cheap. And easily fundable by even a small municipality never mind a large Nation.
It would be interesting to have encrypted blobs scattered around volunteer computers/servers, like a storage version of BOINC / @HOME.
People tend to have dramatically less spare storage space than space compute time though and it would need to be very redundant to be guaranteed not to lose data.
The actual volume of data is kind of insane for distribution. You start running into many scale problems.
At ~70PB of storage, assumed redundant as well. And at ~$15/TB JUST for HDDs alone, you’re talking $2.1 million in just hard drives.
Installation, hardware, and facility costs will at least pentuple that number, if we’re being crazy conservative. Making the cost to stand up an archive $10.5 million?
During this process I found out that their finances are public and there is more reliable information out there:
The cost to store the data and run the archive is a whopping $36mill/y at the moment.
Which if you consider what they do is incredibly cheap. And easily fundable by even a small municipality never mind a large Nation.
It would be interesting to have encrypted blobs scattered around volunteer computers/servers, like a storage version of BOINC / @HOME.
People tend to have dramatically less spare storage space than space compute time though and it would need to be very redundant to be guaranteed not to lose data.