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by toomuchtodo·13y ago·view on hn ↗
No offense, but I used to work at a DoE lab on data-taking from the Large Hadron Collider CMS detector.

It's not as expensive as you'd think. We were dealing with hundreds of petabytes of data, and customers much more demanding than your consumer paying $16/month to stream movies.

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How big was your team? How much were your IT costs?
10 people; 4 people on the actual sysadmin/operations side, 6 people who managed the higher application layer for the distributed filesystem, job management, etc.

If you're just talking the spinning disk and servers, probably ~$5-6MM/year. If you include the StorageTek tape archives, add in another $5MM-10MM.

Netflix operating income for FY2011 was $376 million.