Let's look at it storage wise. A 480TB Backblaze 6.0 pod costs $22,000 to build. Dropbox has 90% of their data stored on their custom systems, and they have 'mu

Let's look at it storage wise. A 480TB Backblaze 6.0 pod costs $22,000 to build. Dropbox has 90% of their data stored on their custom systems, and they have 'multi-exabytes' of data. Let's just say they have 5 exabytes. A petabyte costs roughly $50,000 using this scenario, and 5,000 petabytes would then cost $250 million dollars alone. If they had 20 exabytes...they would have a billion dollars in storage hardware alone? This doesn't include power, networking, labor, none of that.