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Cost of 1 gigabyte of storage over time (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

If we're gonna get nitpicky on this (which we might as well), we should include the cost of bandwidth when talking about the cloud. They offer the storage for free (theoretically), but it still costs you money to upload and download that data.

I was just having a similar conversation with some people about the rapidly increasing size demands from video games, and somebody brought up the point of bandwidth as an issue as important as the size on disk. If you have to download multi-gig patches for a 100+ gig game, that's going to very quickly eat through monthly data caps.