[pixelbath]

Unless my numbers are way off, I got around $15.5 million per year using Backblaze's calculator: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html

Numbers used:

  Initial upload:   258998272 GB (1024*1024*247)
  Monthly upload:   100 GB (default)
  Monthly delete:   5 GB (default)
  Monthly download: 1048576 GB (1 PB)

  Period of Time:   12 months (default)

[adtac]

It'll take 215,000 years to reach 247 petabytes if you averaged 100 GB of upload a month.

[kylebarron]

The initial upload is 247 petabytes

[bhandziuk]

I think they're saying NASA would add ~100GB of new data to this dataset every month.

[adtac]

I know. And I'm saying if that was the rate they've historically added data to their dataset, it would've taken them 200,000+ years to get here. Which is why 100GB/mo is virtually nothing for NASA -- it doesn't match with their historical throughput.

[bhandziuk]

I see what you're saying. Yeah, I agree.

[pixelbath]

That's the default value on the calculator, but all that does is prorate the storage demand over the period. Backblaze is entirely usage-based (speaking from experience; I'm a customer).