Here’s the cheapest way to store a huge 1000TB of data online
Meet Fujifilm and its tapes
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Remember when tape was en vogue, back in the days before it was displaced by compact discs and then vanished from the consumer market? Well, turns out it’s still very much in fashion in the corporate world, where demand for data storage is fast outstripping supply.
Fujifilmhas announced it will offer itstape-basedObject Archive solution as a service (you could call it TaaS) for a transparent, one-off fee. You can store up to one Petabyte (that’s one million GB) in adatacenterfor up to five years for a mere $46,100.
That’s $0.77 cents per TB per month, without the additional egress costs, and there’s even an S3 API forAmazon’s popularcloud storageservice.
Compared toBackblaze, one of the cheapest onlinecloud backup servicesaround, Fujifilm’s offering is about 85% cheaper over five years.
Data is stored in the newly developed OTF (Open Tape Format) on two copies, in a way that mimics RAID-0; 180 LTO-8 and 350 LTO-7 tapes are provided. For added security, the archived data is also air-gapped.
“The customer can request the latest LTO generation (ie.LTO-9) upon renewal of their subscription. The customer is required to upgrade to the latest tape drive technology (LTO-9 drives if the customer is requesting LTO-9 media) prior to the shipment of media,” Fujifilm toldTechRadar Pro.
A shorter 3-year subscription is also available for $35,940, which is slightly more expensive in the long run at $1 per TB per month.
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Just bear in mind, this is a cold storage solution, similar toAmazon’s Glacier, and as such is unlikely to suit scenarios where data needs to be moved to and from the storage tier on a regular basis.
Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled inwebsite buildersandweb hostingwhen DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium.
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