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LOL. So S3 would charge $22k and you are paying them $60. Yeah, I am impressed that they let you steal the money. That is bad and you should feel bad. Just buyi

• eyegor 5y ago
  So for fun I decided to see how cheap you could actually do this in a reliable way. Cheapest gb/$ for a good widely available drive is a 6tb refurb enterprise drive around $110. For this many drives I'd want raid 6 (especially refurbs), so you're looking at $1650 pre tax. As a public company there's no chance backblaze will let this dude keep ripping them off.
  • jve 5y ago
    As per https://www.backblaze.com/b2/storage-pod.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/storage-pod.html they are not using enterprise drives and 15 drives per RAID6. As per https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-server/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv... it costs them $0.036/GB. So 8TB space costs them 294,91$. Well they have other costs too. But if they had him as a customer for 5+ years, they can start profiting :) Actually more years, because electricity, traffic, rent, salaries, etc...
    • quickthrower2 5y ago
      let’s hope there is no egress!
• snypher 5y ago
  If something is being sold at a loss, why should the purchaser feel bad about it? Some 'personal unlimited' type plan is allowing this behavior and if the company is concerned with it they can change or terminate their product. What if the whole point of the personal plan is "hopefully they can be encouraged to spend +$x with us"?
• vadfa 5y ago
  That means that every time I buy something and there's a profit marging someone is stealing from me.