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Google charges USD 0,15/GB for egress traffic out of GCP. That's USD 36864 for 240TB. Am I right?

EDIT: Actually egress seems to be 0,08. So roughly half of what I wrote.

No, download from Google Drive (Workspace or not) is free. They don’t promise they’ll actually let you download 240TB in 7 days, though.

Honestly, /r/datahoarder with their 240TBs or more is why we can’t have nice things…

No, Google flat out lying by calling something that is limited as “unlimited” is why we can’t have nice things. I don’t understand why anyone would go out of their way to defend blatant liars.

The article said it was stored in a Google Workspace account, which means it is Google Drive and there are no egress fees.

Oh I see. Thanks for the information.

Just looking at the cheap 20TB disk drives available here in Austria, the disks alone add just over 4000 Euros to that, and then you still need a machine to host 12 drives, I see one QNAP for 12 disk for only 1500 Euros. But it has only a 2x10Gb connection. Slimming down the data sounds like the first thing to do here.

It is likely uncompressed video, so that really means just picking and choosing what to keep. Most of it is likely trash anyway.

He's really at the point where owning (much less renting) a tape drive would make sense. LTO-9 is eighteen terabytes uncompressed, which I would leave it at because hey, this is video. Rent a tape drive and get a few boxes of tapes. One copy at home for the FBI to take and one copy over at a friend's place in a shoebox ...

Egress charges probably don't apply (or not directly; you might have to pay them anyway if the only way to download fast enough is to run your script in GCP), but if they did there are services which do the migration for you and take the hit on the egress. https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/features/cloud-migra...

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