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I can't understand how the math adds up! 10TB harddrive on ebay costs $900[2]. To download 10TB once with standard AT&T 30GB-$300 plan, it costs 3000GB*300/30GB

I can't understand how the math adds up! 10TB harddrive on ebay costs $900[2]. To download 10TB once with standard AT&T 30GB-$300 plan, it costs 3000GB*300/30GB 30k USD! Or may be with some bulk-plans it can go down, but not orders of magnitude. Hard-drive is instantaneous, always available and safer. May be I am having a bad time to figure out the obvious answer, but what is it? [1]-http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/plans-new.html#fbid=pKhYW7oAof0 http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/plans-new.html#fbid=pKhYW7o... [2]-http://www.ebay.com/bhp/10tb-hard-drive http://www.ebay.com/bhp/10tb-hard-drive

justincormack 13y ago
Not everyone lives somewhere where the best mobile data deal is like that, I have unlimited mobile data. But most people would be using this from wifi too. Plus you need to increase your costs to cover backup, geographical redundancy etc.
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cheapsteak 13y ago
Slightly OT, but I had a similar reaction to China's "Thunder". It's a Chinese download manager that has a cache of a large percentage of all bittorrent content available on the net. It works kind of like a communal seedbox, whenever a person opens a torrent using Thunder, it gets sent to the server which also downloads the same files, unless the server already has it (which it usually does). You'll then be downloading from the normal P2P network in addition to downloading from Thunder's servers. It always manages to max out my bandwidth (2 megabytes/s) so I'm not sure what the max speed you can get is. This also works for old torrents with no seeds and no peers, as long as someone once used Thunder to download the torrent, you can grab it from their servers. The service costs ￥150 per year ($24.5, €18.56), which seems incredibly cheap for all the storage and bandwidth costs they'd incur
- UVB-76 13y ago
  Assuming you are referring to Xunlei [1] it is effectively a P2P network. The files you download are then shared with other users. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xunlei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xunlei
  - cheapsteak 13y ago
    Yes, that's the one. The paid version gives access to their file servers, where it becomes more like usenet than P2P. They also allow you to stream the content on their servers instead of downloading to your local disk. You can then use torrents as a kind of 'bookmark' and use Thunder as a practically unlimited cloud storage + video streaming service. They also transcode all HD content to 'fast', 'HD', and 'ultra HD' versions for you to choose between when streaming. It's really incredible the things you can do in a country unencumbered by copyright restrictions
cheapsteak 13y ago
You don't have to buy a 10TB drive to get 10TB of storage. A 3TB Seagate Baracuda costs $127 on Amazon, 10TB worth of 3TB drives is $423

justincormack 13y ago

Not everyone lives somewhere where the best mobile data deal is like that, I have unlimited mobile data. But most people would be using this from wifi too. Plus you need to increase your costs to cover backup, geographical redundancy etc.

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cheapsteak 13y ago

Slightly OT, but I had a similar reaction to China's "Thunder". It's a Chinese download manager that has a cache of a large percentage of all bittorrent content available on the net. It works kind of like a communal seedbox, whenever a person opens a torrent using Thunder, it gets sent to the server which also downloads the same files, unless the server already has it (which it usually does). You'll then be downloading from the normal P2P network in addition to downloading from Thunder's servers. It always manages to max out my bandwidth (2 megabytes/s) so I'm not sure what the max speed you can get is. This also works for old torrents with no seeds and no peers, as long as someone once used Thunder to download the torrent, you can grab it from their servers. The service costs ￥150 per year ($24.5, €18.56), which seems incredibly cheap for all the storage and bandwidth costs they'd incur

UVB-76 13y ago
Assuming you are referring to Xunlei [1] it is effectively a P2P network. The files you download are then shared with other users. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xunlei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xunlei
- cheapsteak 13y ago
  Yes, that's the one. The paid version gives access to their file servers, where it becomes more like usenet than P2P. They also allow you to stream the content on their servers instead of downloading to your local disk. You can then use torrents as a kind of 'bookmark' and use Thunder as a practically unlimited cloud storage + video streaming service. They also transcode all HD content to 'fast', 'HD', and 'ultra HD' versions for you to choose between when streaming. It's really incredible the things you can do in a country unencumbered by copyright restrictions

cheapsteak 13y ago

You don't have to buy a 10TB drive to get 10TB of storage. A 3TB Seagate Baracuda costs $127 on Amazon, 10TB worth of 3TB drives is $423