CentOS - Feb 2019 - Please Recommend Affordable and Reliable Cloud Storage for 50 TB of Data

On Feb 15, 2019, at 7:56 AM, Yan Li <elliot.li.tech at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> G Suite Business tier. Buy five users and you get unlimited Google Drive
> storage. That's $50/month.
So, you?re already 12x higher than his budget, and it?ll be going up 20% in
early April.

On top of that, there?s certainly a transfer rate limit.  I couldn?t find a
reliable source saying what that limit is, but I found a related limit for G
Suite here:

    https://support.google.com/a/answer/1071518

If that applies to Google Drive as well, it?ll take about 182 years to send 50
TB.

I can say from personal experience that Google is a bit stingy about such
things.  They give G Suite basic users 30 GB of storage, but if you try to put
tens of GB in it, you can only pull that all down a few times a month before
that user?s account gets locked.  That happened to us with one user that kept
blowing up his laptop, requiring a rebuild, and thus a re-download of the entire
IMAP archive he insisted on keeping in the cloud.

If they?re doing that to us, 3 orders of magnitude down from the OP?s target
value, I think he?ll have a bad time trying to put 50 TB into a single Google
Drive account.

On 2/15/19 7:22 AM, Warren Young wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2019, at 7:56 AM, Yan Li <elliot.li.tech at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> G Suite Business tier. Buy five users and you get unlimited Google
Drive
>> storage. That's $50/month.
> 
> So, you?re already 12x higher than his budget, and it?ll be going up 20% in
early April.
Sorry. I read $50/month... My bad.
> I can say from personal experience that Google is a bit stingy about such
things.  They give G Suite basic users 30 GB of storage, but if you try to put
tens of GB in it, you can only pull that all down a few times a month before
that user?s account gets locked.  That happened to us with one user that kept
blowing up his laptop, requiring a rebuild, and thus a re-download of the entire
IMAP archive he insisted on keeping in the cloud.
True.
> If they?re doing that to us, 3 orders of magnitude down from the OP?s
target value, I think he?ll have a bad time trying to put 50 TB into a single
Google Drive account.
OP should check if their university already offers G Suite. Most 
colleges in US do, and they come with unlimited storage (with all the 
shortcomings you mentioned above).

-- 
Elliot

OP - Backblaze Personal. May be like $1/extra per month than your budget.
Unlimited IO and backup storage assuming you only need redundancy.

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html


Still going to take a while on initial upload. (Sounds almost AWS Snowball like
is what you need but too costly).


Regards,

R. S. Tyler Schroder
Redcoded.com 
Cyber Intellegence
> On Feb 15, 2019, at 10:37 AM, Elliot <elliot.li.tech at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> 
> CAUTION: This message was sent from outside the company.
> 
> 
>> On 2/15/19 7:22 AM, Warren Young wrote:
>>> On Feb 15, 2019, at 7:56 AM, Yan Li <elliot.li.tech at
gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> G Suite Business tier. Buy five users and you get unlimited Google
Drive
>>> storage. That's $50/month.
>> 
>> So, you?re already 12x higher than his budget, and it?ll be going up
20% in early April.
> 
> Sorry. I read $50/month... My bad.
> 
>> I can say from personal experience that Google is a bit stingy about
such things.  They give G Suite basic users 30 GB of storage, but if you try to
put tens of GB in it, you can only pull that all down a few times a month before
that user?s account gets locked.  That happened to us with one user that kept
blowing up his laptop, requiring a rebuild, and thus a re-download of the entire
IMAP archive he insisted on keeping in the cloud.
> 
> True.
> 
>> If they?re doing that to us, 3 orders of magnitude down from the OP?s
target value, I think he?ll have a bad time trying to put 50 TB into a single
Google Drive account.
> 
> OP should check if their university already offers G Suite. Most
> colleges in US do, and they come with unlimited storage (with all the
> shortcomings you mentioned above).
> 
> --
> Elliot
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