On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, at 13:49, Chris Ellis via Hampshire wrote: > Have a look at backblaze.com, they offer some very compelling pricing.
I think this depends whether you can use their 'unlimited' personal backup ($60 per year). If there's some 'fair use' policy that doesn't let you store 16 TB, then their 'B2' cloud service is more like $1000 per year for this much. Even Amazon's 'Glacier deep archive' would be around $360 per year (with extra costs if you need to retrieve it). Some sources online reckon that good quality optical discs (but definitely not the cheap dye-based ones) are still a viable option, if you want to write the data once and then have it sit on a shelf for years. But Blu-Ray discs only go up to 50 or 100 GB per disc, which isn't practical for storing 16 TB. Sony sells 'optical disc archive' cartridges up to 5.5 TB, but it looks like the drive to write & read these costs thousands. Thomas -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
