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"$4 per TB/month" so 16 X 12 = $192+tax not a insignificant amount even in a first world country and probably a deal breaker for people living in poorer countri

"$4 per TB/month" so 16 X 12 = $192+tax not a insignificant amount even in a first world country and probably a deal breaker for people living in poorer countries.

votepaunchy 7y ago
Note that AWS offers archival storage for $1/TB-month and Google has promised $1.23/TB-month later this year. These prices are competitive with raw storage, so the alternative is to go without backup.
- liquid9 7y ago
  Do you have a link for the AWS 1/TB-month and Google? I'm interested.
  - FigmentEngine 7y ago
    "S3 Glacier Deep Archive This new storage class for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is designed for long-term data archival and is the lowest cost storage from any cloud provider. Priced from just $0.00099/GB-mo (less than one-tenth of one cent, or $1.01 per TB-mo), the cost is comparable to tape archival services. Data can be retrieved in 12 hours or less, and there will also be a bulk retrieval option that will allow you to inexpensively retrieve even petabytes of data within 48 hours." https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/S3-glacier-deep-archive/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/S3-glacie...
GordonS 7y ago
4TB is a lot of personal data - $192/y for that isn't cheap, but I wouldn't call it expensive either for a first world country. And I suppose syncing masses of personal data to an archive across the world is kind of a 1st world problem.
- judge2020 7y ago
  For comparison, Google One offers 2TB for $10 a month and the next tier is 10tb for $100 a month (the only downside is having to use Google Drive)
eeeeeeeeeeeee 7y ago
That's a fairly normal price. I pay $60/year for Amazon Drive, which has a 1TB limit (no charge for data transfer), that I don't even come close to approaching.