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related question: given plummeting prices per GB for raw storage, I'd have expected the cost of hosting storage to drop per GB as well, and yet we haven't seen
by asah 3y ago
related question: given plummeting prices per GB for raw storage, I'd have expected the cost of hosting storage to drop per GB as well, and yet we haven't seen a commensurate drop, even given competitive pressure. What gives?
Yes, I know there's many other costs but I'm talking about * PER GB * and just for storage not access. A disk drive roughly takes the same amount of space/power/cooling regardless of capacity, so if you install 2x larger drives then cost ** PER GB ** should fall in half. And yet, we haven't seen that among cloud providers.
This should mean that inactive accounts quickly drive to near-zero cost, since they're nothing but storage capacity. Photo hosting should drive to zero. etc etc etc
Can anyone explain ??
- pradn 3y agoNo, storage costs aren't plummeting. They've been largely stagnant the past 3-4 years. I don't think the reduction in the number of drives for the same amount of storage is as significant as the cost of the drives themselves. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2.jpg https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2....