Title (Goal)Storage Cost Savings and Predictability for Securing Long-Term Funding
Primary ActorAccountants, Purchasing Departments, Endowers of Money
ScopeFinancial
LevelFundamental
AuthorBrad Spry
Story (A paragraph or two describing what happens)

As an infrastructure engineer and realist, I need to secure endowment funding for 100 years, to truthfully ensure the repository's viability.

Asynchronous storage cost is predictable and calculable to 100 years and beyond, enabling long-term cost to be clearly and effectively communicated to non-technical people.

For example, S3-standard: $36864 per TB for 100-year term on asynchronous storage vs. $122880 for the exact same amount of storage capacity on SSD.   We could effectively obtain three-times more asynchronous storage for the cost of SSD.

 

Some AWS examples:

$120 per GB for 100-year term on SSD ($0.10 * 1200 months)

$36 per GB for 100-year term on S3-standard ($0.03 * 1200 months) 70% savings over SSD

$15 per GB for 100-year term on S3-infrequent ($0.0125 * 1200 months) 87.5% savings over SSD

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  1. Thanks, Brad Spry. Can you clarify the actual use case here, such as:

    As a <type of user>, I want <some goal> so that <some reason>.

    see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_case#Casual_use_case_structure