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What are you looking to pay for this?
I plan it 3000$
Using https://10gbps.io and be happy with them.
i can do this in Romania, what is your budget ?
You can't even get your current customers their storage and you think you can get someone 600TB?
Francisco
Are you able to sign contracts?
Do you mind to share why do you want that huge amount of storage in one server? I just don't understand why anyone would prefer it instead of using distributed storage software.
all customers have his vps in this moment for your information , also we speach here about a dedi not vps plan
I use it storage videos, what do you mean by distributed storage, can you give a example?
Sure, I would recommend to check out GlusterFS as a clustered filesystem in LAN.
Do you have copyright to the videos you host or will that be a case of provider splashing thousands for the kit and then heaving to terminate you for breach of ToS ?
Google G-Suite is the answer. 8$ for unlimited storage.
Get a little VPS and mount the GDrive with rclone.
you really think someone legally owning 600TB of video material worth to be hosted is going to ask for business in a two-line post like this on LET? hmm... ;-)
Of course not, this was more of a warning post to fellow less experience hosters here ;-).
as I know google driver will limit the file once you exceed the rate limit
How legal is this/do you have the required copyright for streaming/offering them for download?
600TB is large, i doubt you only have them stored there, this is some kind of filehost or streaming.
Also, 600TB on a single server is utterly dumb for many reasons (Among them: IO on CPU; IO on controllers; PCIe lanes for controllers; heat generation; PSU redundancy; N+1 server redundancy; expense on case; human error on exchanging HDDs; requirement to shut down entire service to change mainboard/CPU/RAM; single/few network card(s)....)
3000$ pays your 3Gbit BW. And maybe a server that could do this. Without HDDs.
600TB are at least 60 and at most (reasonable) 150 HDD bays. SM sells at most 90 x 3,5" which limits single server (in hot swap) to 8 (75) or 10TB (60) drives.
Multiple servers might be able to get that into budget but also not with 3Gbit of useful BW.
Probably OP not even has such amount of video ready to be stored (even if it's porn). And certainly, he has no plans for copyright preservation either.
I know 3000$ is not much, but that's my budget
Tough, I don't see you receiving any serious offers in that case.
And of course until you can prove you have licensing rights to open the next Pornhub.
For 3000 USD you can get 526 hubic 10TB packages - that's 5.2 petabyte, each is limited to 10 megabit..
10*526 = 5.2 gigabit
There you go
:'D
Movie and Series wise it is easy to cross past 200TB especially in 1080p. That are "only" around 5k at 40G each.
Filehoster wise as well, customers give you their data for piracy basically; it literally never ends....
The bandwidth may not be as expensive as @William suggests if you are connected exclusively to HE.net somewhere in the US where they sell 10G links for US$2,000. Still, single-homed HE.net doesn't sound that good to me, and actually pushing 3G (let alone 10G) would seem a bit of a stretch if the end user's ISP does not also have a good amount of transit directly with HE.net.
But since you did not suggest that you would be hammering the line 24/7, I would guess your expected data transfer would be quite a bit less than the max capacity of 3Gbit, and you would just be bursting right?
But what kind of redundancy do you want/need for your storage? Need any raid? Raid 5? Raid 6?
The most cost effective drives are 4TB. 600TB = 150 drives (on paper). Since 4TB drives actually have more like 3.7TB of usable space, to get to 600TB you need 163. Assuming you don't mind using multiple servers, and assuming 8x SATA ports per server, that would be 21 servers.
If you need RAID 5, then you need 24 servers and 187 drives.
4TB Drive = about US$100
187 * $100 = $18,700
24 low end servers may be very cheap, but still assume $200 each on average. So $4,800 for the CPU/RAM/MB/PSU/Chassis.
Total upfront cost will be >$23,500 (about inline with @William's 20k EUR estimate).
But you also need to look at other operating costs like power, rack space, and use of infrastructure like switch ports and what have you.
You can't possibly need that much storage all at once. It would take you around 20 days at full speed just to fill it up.
You might find someone willing to do it if they can deliver servers 1 by 1, rather than all in 1 go, requiring a pretty sizable investment.
greenhousing.cz is maybe able to help you http://www.greenhousing.cz/en/price-list/storage-server-48-tb/ just ask them for a custom quote
600TB in one server? That's going to go down well
@jojok I can build you a cluster of servers running glusterFS with 600TB of raw storage scalable up and down to match your needs, you will pay the provider directly 2000gbp/month for the storage and I will take 400gbp for a one time setup fee for me to configure it.
"lowend" seems to be quite a scalable term these days
you can use lowend hardware for cluster setups
Getting a 600TB storage from cociu is the lowest of ends
next time on lowendtalk, 600TB fsck drama.