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I'm not sure how you come up with $10. Drives regularly last 5+ years. A single 1TB drive at $60 saves me $240 over Backblaze if it lasts 5 years. Throw in the

I'm not sure how you come up with $10. Drives regularly last 5+ years. A single 1TB drive at $60 saves me $240 over Backblaze if it lasts 5 years. Throw in the safe, and I still save $180. Two drives and a safe? Still saving $120. I have drives that have gone well beyond 5 years too - so the longer they last, the more you save. And, what kind of connection do you have that allows you to upload 1TB in 5 minutes? That's spectacular. An ideal gigabit connection is going to take you a good two hours. Even that would be pretty amazing.

jjeaff 9y ago
One thing to consider as well is that when you get to a certain level of storage, you need a dedicated box (so there is more hardware cost). I have 50tb of storage in my home server. The electricity cost for this box is about $35 a month. In my case it is so much strorage that it saves money, but if you have less storage and still need a dedicated box, it would be less so.