Is Tardigrade pricing really competitive?

[jammerdan]

https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/

Object Storage

Name	Price
Incoming traffic	Included
Outgoing traffic	$0.011 /GB
Storage replicated x3	$0.0112 /month/GB

Cloud Archive

Name	Price
Incoming traffic	$0.011 /GB
Outgoing traffic	$0.011 /GB
Secured cold storage	$0.0023 /month/GB

[nerdatwork]

Tardigrade price comparison sanity check

Hi, I have a NAS at home thats backed up to idrive - its 30000 files and 1.1TB total - idrive charges $70 annually for 2TB (Although at the moment they seem to be flogging it for $52) - all good there. I thought I’d maybe put it on Tardigrade instead… Based on my numbers its quite a bit more expensive… Storage ($0.010 per Gigabyte-Month) = $11 ($.01 x 1100) Egress ($0.045 per GB) = 0 Objects ($0.0000022 per Object-Month) = $.06. (30000 x.0000022) So for one year thats $132.72 Is that righ…

[jintors]

Yes but did you include in price, costs for electricity and nas ?

[rit]

jammerdan Tardigrade is competitive against the costing of the Object Storage you have quoted as long as the aim is not to do much downloading of the data stored. Tardigrade does not have an offering that provides archive storage, such systems often have tape systems within their design to provide vast amounts of capacity, but with slow performance.

nerdatwork Your figures seem about right, but your use case is more that of backing up your NAS rather than the need for an S3 object-store. So the quoted cold storage service would be a better comparison. The real value that iDrive would be providing you will depend on how much you use its advance features such as File Sync and Snapshot/Versioning.