> Cloud services are ruled by a ruthless economy of scales. This is where Amazon, Google, MSFT and a host of other cloud providers shine, reaping the benefits o

> Cloud services are ruled by a ruthless economy of scales. This is where Amazon, Google, MSFT and a host of other cloud providers shine, reaping the benefits of investment in data-centers and petabytes of storage capacity. I dunno about that. Amazon and Google, at least, charge significantly more than I could go out and buy a few drives for on sale. (AND, of course, they charge it perpetually. Dunno how StorJ works.)