The base _costs_ for online storage through Amazon s3 is ~$370/year. Plus there are costs for pushing data into and out of the archive, another copying in Amazon Glacier, plus developing the archival software so $1200-$2000/year isn’t too bad but can be expensive for smaller organisations.
You could try and roll something yourself if you basically wanted multiple copies stored offsite. I would look at Amazon Glaicer + another storage option that can have more on demand access. Backblaze have launched their cloud offering at $0.005/GB month which comes out at $62/year for storage with free upload. Add Amazon Glacier at $82/year and you have quite reasonably priced storage across 2 different cloud providers. You would have to manage all of the _preservation_ aspects yourself but the storage becomes quite cheap in this scenario. Thanks Glen > Good evening. In trying to come up with a long-term preservation plan for > digital image master files, we've spoken to reps at a few digital > repositories which offer professional services, but at a higher per-TB > annual storage cost than our small museum can afford (anywhere from > $1200-$2000/TB/year). Are there reputable archives with lower fees? I'm not > sure where to begin looking. Thanks for any insight. > > Best regards, Matt > > -- > Matt Wheeler, > Photography Archives, > Penobscot Marine Museum > Archives (207) 548-2529 ext. 211 > 5 Church Street, PO Box 498 > Searsport, Maine 04974 > >
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