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I do this often: 1) Go to pcpartpicker, pick Storage, sort by Price/GB: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#sort=ppgb&page=1 https://pcpart

I do this often: 1) Go to pcpartpicker, pick Storage, sort by Price/GB: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#sort=ppgb&page=1 https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#sort=... 3TB (for $57.50) 2) Go to Google, look up number of people in the United States: https://www.google.com/search?q=us+population https://www.google.com/search?q=us+population 325.7 million 3) Divide You can store 9.2 kilobytes for every single person in the United States, for just $57.50. 9.2 kilobytes is actually a pretty decent amount of data. For comparison, this is Chapter 40 of Pride and Prejudice, at 9kb: http://www.kellynch.com/e-texts/Pride%20and%20Prejudice/Pride%20and%20Prejudice,%20Chapter%2039.txt http://www.kellynch.com/e-texts/Pride%20and%20Prejudice/Prid... The complete works of Shakespeare fit into 5 MB. To store the equivalent of the complete works of Shakespeare for every person in the US would cost: $31,222.50. Heck, I know small businesses that could afford that, let alone the mega-corp media conglomerates. How much data does Verizon store about me? Comcast? Target? Visa?

askafriend 9y ago
This line of thinking is extremely reductionist to the point of uselessness. Anyone who's built products at scale can tell you this. There are thousands of things you aren't thinking of.
- uryga 9y ago
  Why is it useless?
  - askafriend 9y ago
    Say you buy those drives. What's the cost to implement GDPR? What about storing high definition photos? What does availability across regions look like? What does latency look like? What does backup look like? Do you see where I'm going with this?
    - lainga 9y ago
      Say I am an unhinged individual with $120 and I buy that one (1) drive. >What's the cost to implement GDPR?: I laugh and continue to compile a list of where all crossbow enthusiasts with type-O blood have been in the past 6 months. >What about storing high definition photos?: Facebook can handle that. All I want to do is store a 9KB index file on every US citizen, because I believe I am a vampiric J. Edgar Hoover. >What does availability across regions look like?: The drive sits in my mom's basement as I continue to scrape crossbowforums.org against the Red Cross donors list. >What does latency look like?: I guess however well a 50-centimeter SATA cable does. >What does backup look like?: I buy two drives at once for $115 and get free shipping on the second one.
craftyguy 9y ago
Just storing it is only a tiny fraction of the cost. It requires at least a datacenter full of systems + supporting staff to actually collect it and make use of it.

askafriend 9y ago

This line of thinking is extremely reductionist to the point of uselessness. Anyone who's built products at scale can tell you this. There are thousands of things you aren't thinking of.

uryga 9y ago
Why is it useless?
- askafriend 9y ago
  Say you buy those drives. What's the cost to implement GDPR? What about storing high definition photos? What does availability across regions look like? What does latency look like? What does backup look like? Do you see where I'm going with this?
  - lainga 9y ago
    Say I am an unhinged individual with $120 and I buy that one (1) drive. >What's the cost to implement GDPR?: I laugh and continue to compile a list of where all crossbow enthusiasts with type-O blood have been in the past 6 months. >What about storing high definition photos?: Facebook can handle that. All I want to do is store a 9KB index file on every US citizen, because I believe I am a vampiric J. Edgar Hoover. >What does availability across regions look like?: The drive sits in my mom's basement as I continue to scrape crossbowforums.org against the Red Cross donors list. >What does latency look like?: I guess however well a 50-centimeter SATA cable does. >What does backup look like?: I buy two drives at once for $115 and get free shipping on the second one.

craftyguy 9y ago

Just storing it is only a tiny fraction of the cost. It requires at least a datacenter full of systems + supporting staff to actually collect it and make use of it.