by zarb0z » Mon Jun 05, 2017 1:28 pm
Blob storage is 2.5 cents a gig, not a penny a gig. What is $0.01/GB is what's called "cool tier" storage, which requires an intermediary filer of some kind (extra monthly cost if you're not writing and forgetting, the way Cool Tier is designed), which is an extra cost per month: at least $14 for the small, shared-core boxes.
Regardless, you will pay egress bandwidth charges on this solution. It adds up, especially if you're playing lossless files all the time.
Source: long-time Azure user and I've already tried this. Moderate usage costs me about $30/mo more than my normal spend, and it's
not more convenient than having everything on a 5TB HDD that you carry around with you. PLUS...if you're at work, you are going to skew HR's perception of how much time you spend on the Web.
Feel free to check my work against a 2TB library accessed 8 hrs/day for 20 days a month:
...or with your own particulars:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/
Blob storage is 2.5 cents a gig, not a penny a gig. What is $0.01/GB is what's called "cool tier" storage, which requires an intermediary filer of some kind (extra monthly cost if you're not writing and forgetting, the way Cool Tier is designed), which is an extra cost per month: at least $14 for the small, shared-core boxes.
Regardless, you will pay egress bandwidth charges on this solution. It adds up, especially if you're playing lossless files all the time.
Source: long-time Azure user and I've already tried this. Moderate usage costs me about $30/mo more than my normal spend, and it's [b][i][u]not [/u][/i][/b]more convenient than having everything on a 5TB HDD that you carry around with you. PLUS...if you're at work, you are going to skew HR's perception of how much time you spend on the Web.
Feel free to check my work against a 2TB library accessed 8 hrs/day for 20 days a month:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/M702QjC.png[/img]
...or with your own particulars:
[url]https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/[/url]