Thanks for doing the math; you're right! Google Archive storage is $0.0012/month (3x cheaper than Amazon Glacier, which surprised me). 144TB would be $173/mon

Thanks for doing the math; you're right! Google Archive storage is $0.0012/month (3x cheaper than Amazon Glacier, which surprised me). 144TB would be $173/month, so 9x cheaper to keep in your home. I think your estimate of how many DVDs you can put in a given space is a bit optimistic: you're assuming no protection between discs and that a floor-to-ceiling tower is stable. If instead we imagine putting them in cases that double their thickness and putting collections of them in boxes that add 10% to the total height, though, it's 4x cheaper to keep them in your apartment. But if you use Blu-ray instead of DVD it's 20x cheaper!