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Comment: Re:Glacier at $20/mn expensive? (Score 1) 942

by afidel (#46464235) Attached to: How Do You Backup 20TB of Data?

You can easily do it cheaper with tape, $50 for an LTO4 drive, $400 for 20 tapes, and $5/month for a safe deposit box. You can double the number of tapes if you always want to have a copy offsite (vs retrieving the tapes, updating the contents and moving them offsite again) and still come out significantly cheaper.

Comment: Re:Similar Situation (Score 2) 942

by afidel (#46463699) Attached to: How Do You Backup 20TB of Data?

You can get an LTO4 SAS drive for ~$50 on ebay, they do 800GB native per tape, so typically ~1.2TB per tape for mixed content (obviously if it's all compressed media it will be much closer to native). 10-20 tapes doesn't seem that bad (we send that many offsite daily). The tapes will cost you ~$20 each unless you're willing to go used (ewww).

Comment: Re:I got in on the Virgin plan at the $25 level. I (Score 1) 273

by afidel (#46444735) Attached to: WSJ: Americans' Phone Bills Are Going Up

Yeah except you can't keep that price and get a decent handset, that's why I just switched the wife over to Republic Wireless, same $25/month but she can use a non-sucky phone (Moto X) instead of her cruddy Optimus V on Virgin Mobile plus she now gets unlimited voice, twice as much data, and roaming to Verizon.

Comment: Re:And this means...? (Score 1) 187

In theory that's correct, for instance our company has a policy that a manager and no more than two of his direct reports can be on a flight together, but the number of times that policy is violated when a bunch of the bigwigs are taking the chartered jet to a meeting far away makes it a bit toothless in reality. Who's going to fire the CEO and a bunch of EVP's?

Comment: Re:Not a subsidy? (Score 2) 126

by afidel (#46433629) Attached to: NASA Admits It Gave Jet Fuel Discounts To Google Execs' Company


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