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Looking at Alipay I can find 256TB drives to the tune of 26 USD. If I needed 3 of them for some reliability and change them every ten months, I still have a cos
by pama 3y ago
Looking at Alipay I can find 256TB drives to the tune of 26 USD. If I needed 3 of them for some reliability and change them every ten months, I still have a cost of ~ USD 0.03/TB/month. Why is offline storage still so expensive nowadays? Is it all simply the network costs?
(Apologies for promoting this advertisement thread unintentionally; the real question is for S3, Backblaze and the like.)
- mano78 3y agoI think you mean 256 Gb
- pama 3y agoNo please check Alipay/aliexpress for prices. You can also get usb keys nowadays for 32TB or more for less than USD 10. Maybe they are mostly scams, but if I were to extrapolate from price trends of a few years back when I bought drives more regularly either these prices are possible soon or we hit tech barriers I’m curious about.
- Kluggy 3y agoThose are almost certainly fake capacities.
- lakpan 3y agoWelcome to the internet. Prepare to involuntarily part ways with your money. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-freeware-detects-fake-usb-drives-with-inflated-capacity https://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-freeware-detects-fake-...
- pama 3y agoThanks. And how is this different from the offering of the original poster?