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		eisa01 on April 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On WD Red NAS Drives I thought it was $5/TB/month too, but turns out you can get down to $1/TB/month with "Deep Glacier" etc., $2.5/TB for retrieval

imtringued on April 22, 2020 | [–]

Glacier is far more complicated than you might think. It only makes sense in case of disaster recovery where you lost everything including your non glacier backups.

syshum on April 22, 2020 | [–]

That might be useful as backup storage, but archival storage can not be used as a replacement for general use NAS storage

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