So my math is probably messed up here but: - Price of buying a drive and a pod to house it: ~$0.036/GB [0] - 1.84% of drives need replacing each year (warrant

So my math is probably messed up here but: - Price of buying a drive and a pod to house it: ~$0.036/GB [0] - 1.84% of drives need replacing each year (warranty aside) - They use 17:3 parity for redundancy (15% of storage) So the hardware price of a GB should be something like $0.036 * (1/0.85) * 1.0184^(years). For 10 years, the hardware would cost $0.05/GB, or $0.0004/GB/month. Power costs and DC space of course need to be taken into account but I still find it interesting that the hardware itself costs only ~10% of what they charge for B2. [0]: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-server/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv...