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OVH Alternatives in North America with 100+ TB Storage

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  • For 100TB+, I would either look into object storage or build a LizardFS cluster. You probably don't want to fsck 100TB of classic storage...

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  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    The Gluster preaching seems to have worked. We still don't know what OP is looking for; is it for a DB, a porn site image store, a large RFS, or just some dump? We don't know.

    But we know that Gluster (or object storage or LizardFS or ZFS or Ceph or ...?) should be looked into and OP - who still didn't care to provide a bit more information - seems to agree. Great, case solved.

    ("It's not the mediocre engineer who is dangerous. It's the guy advising 'the right thing' he read about on Hacker News")

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  • @jsg said:
    The Gluster preaching seems to have worked. We still don't know what OP is looking for; is it for a DB, a porn site image store, a large RFS, or just some dump? We don't know.

    But we know that Gluster (or object storage or LizardFS or ZFS or Ceph or ...?) should be looked into and OP - who still didn't care to provide a bit more information - seems to agree. Great, case solved.

    ("It's not the mediocre engineer who is dangerous. It's the guy advising 'the right thing' he read about on Hacker News")

    It’s primarily used for large file storage, raw video files, scratch drive, etc.

  • Ceph is great. It only broke one other cheap-as-shit hoster before our favorite Romanian.

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  • ServerHunterServerHunter Member, Host Rep
    edited February 2019

    There are several providers offering storage in NA for < $10 USD per TB:
    https://www.serverhunter.com/?search=8D5-13B-32D

    INCERO has 24 TB for $72.10 USD but only has one of these in stock. Might be worth contacting them to check if they can build you a few more. Depending on your needs, it might be worth splitting it between providers.

  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker
    edited February 2019

    @SprkFade said:
    It’s primarily used for large file storage, raw video files, scratch drive, etc.

    And you have a good budget. So my advice would be to go for two dedis of 50 or 60 TB with reasonable processor and relateively modest memory but at 2 locations (and maybe even 2 decent providers). Divide each in 2 kinds of volumes; a (probably smaller) one that's used as a "mirrored over both locations" for important data, and a big one for a storage dump.

    For the kind of budget you have you can afford a provider who offers decent hw Raid (note that "decent" includes having spare controllers, exact same model). For the "safe storage volume" use Raid 1, for the storage dump use Raid 5. One more advice: Dont put the storage dump volume on 1 partition but create a couple of partitions. Reason:if a drive fails recovery will be much quicker than with a single partition.

    Do not care for the newest processor; older Xeons will be good enough. Same for number of cores and memory. An old Xeon 5xxx with 4 C/8 T and 8 GB memory will be good enough and one of the (plenty available) dual socket ones (8C / 16 T) with 16 or 32 GB memory will be luxurious. If you really want to guild the lilly, add some decent 1 TB SSDs to the mix.

    Do not muck around with cool systems like Gluster, Ceph, Lizard, etc. Your needs and use case are far below where that would be worth the effort (and risks). For your mirror volume a simple rdiff is good enough.

  • Well just upload it all to pornhub.
    All good.

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