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Why do you assume they make no money off that? A 10TB HDD costs about $250. At $7/month, they earn that back in 3 years, way below the mean time to failure. Of
by sltkr 5y ago
Why do you assume they make no money off that? A 10TB HDD costs about $250. At $7/month, they earn that back in 3 years, way below the mean time to failure. Of course there's overhead too, but a lot of that goes down with scale, so I'm sure they're happy with your business.
- Dylan16807 5y agoWell here is what they said two years ago: A 9 TByte backup costs Backblaze about $35/month to provide in raw storage costs (electricity, rent for where to store the drives, etc), and that doesn't include the extra money we need to employ "G&A" people (General and Administrative) I'm not sure why it's quite that high, but 1/60th of a server is another $150 and 1/60th of keeping that server housed and powered is going to eat another chunk of that $7 monthly fee. And then add another 20% to all the costs to account for the capacity spent on parity.