Table 1.
Comparison of data storage and computing alternatives, advantages and disadvantages. Prices estimated on March 2019.
| Data Storage | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brand | Type | Capacity | Price | Pros | Cons |
| QNAP | NAS | 50Tb | 4,000$. 80$/Tb |
Transmission speed. Data availability. Unlimited users. |
Local setup and management. Limited capacity. |
| Dropbox | Cloud sync | ∞ | 180$/user year - min of 540$ | Wide adoption. | Manual selection of files to sync. |
| Box | Cloud sync | ∞ | 162$/user year – min of 486$ | Data available locally through a cache system. | If many files are accessed at the same time, speed on the internet connection. |
| Amazon S3 | Cloud storage | ∞ | 264$/Tb year | ∞ | Pricing. Access through key-value pairs. |
| Cloud storage | ∞ | 240$/Tb year | ∞ | Pricing. Access through key-value pairs. | |
| Computing | |||||
| Server | Local | 1 GPU, 4CPU, 32Gb RAM | 3200$ | Always available. Multi-purpose. |
Local Management. |
| Amazon | Cloud | 4600$/year $0.75/hour | Pay per hour. Scalability. |
Data needs to be in the cloud in key/value. | |
| Cloud | 4294$/year $0.49/hour | Pay per hour. Scalability. |
Data needs to be in the cloud in key/value. | ||