On Sep 27, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Adam Quirk wrote: > Will I, or anyone, really ever want to watch two-hundred hours of > random > clips from my life and work?
just thinking out loud... makes me wonder: what are the costs associated with private cloud hosting for all your old media in raw format? let's do the math and look up a few figures on the web.... 200 hours of dv requires 11.25 GB/hour eternal drive storage is 2.25 terabytes amazon s3 storage is 0.15US / terabyte monthly for first 50TB so about 0.34 cents US / month how get it there? tip: do not try this with an old modem. amazon has service to import/export from/to external hard disks $80 US + $2.49 US /hour xfer time. normal S3 bandwidth in costs waived. I think (please check for yourself), Firewire400 or USB2 connections transfer 1TB in approximately 5.6 hours. FW800 is half that. so about $95 / per drive in the TB range. keep in mind that you may prefer to use multiple drives to keep drive cost down (e.g., two 1.5TB drives would cost about $210 to import). don't forget your time to transfer all the tapes to the hard disks (ugh!) cost of hard disk (could be returned as is or with new data you collected from web into amazon before shipping back; you could also utilize smaller disks and more imports to amazon to best fit budget and time constraints; not sure this is approved drive, see extensive amazon list of supported devices) 2 x 1.5TB drives on ebay, free shiping = 2 x $400 us = $800 anyway, just a bunch of numbers that might relate to your or others decisions about where to store raw media. please let me know if i'm missing something. this does not consider costs of sharing back out to lots of peeps or how to catalog and find stuff. would be interesting to now calculate cost of copying all of it over from cloud to archive.org that would probably give Brewster a heart attack! markus http://twitter.com/apperceptions [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
