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The network was hardly the culprit in my explanation. How much is the cost of 4TB of georeplicated storage do you think? Surely you have to at least pay for the
by mehrdadn 6y ago
The network was hardly the culprit in my explanation. How much is the cost of 4TB of georeplicated storage do you think? Surely you have to at least pay for the storage itself? So like $300-$400 at least if it's replicated 3-4x? And I haven't even hinted at offline backups and all kinds of other things.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoThat sounds deliberately dense. Understand what marginal cost is. A megabyte of storage used to cost $1000. Today it costs $400 / 1,000,000. To store a photo is not a penny. Its some percents of a penny. You wouldn't bend over to pick it up on the street.
- mehrdadn 6y ago> To store a photo is not a penny. Its some percents of a penny. You wouldn't bend over to pick it up on the street. You're storing 1 photo (like 3MB)?? Or like thousands/millions? Give me an estimate for how much you think 4TB of replicated storage costs if you think I overestimated?
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoFor Google? A small fraction of what you guessed, in bulk.
- robjan 6y agoMarginal cost is meaningless when you are dealing with exponential values. There are four trillion photos on Google Photos currently. That number is increasing faster than the cost of drives is going down.
- JoeAltmaier 6y ago<citation>? Storage is growing faster. That's my point.
- rq1 6y agoI did not mean the network as the internet network, but as the whole replicated system including almost all the different layers.