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[–] slazer2au 47 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Eh? When was the last time you saw a 1Tb drive for $10?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 18 hours ago

Used hard drives are 10tb for $80, aka $0.008/GB.

diskprices.com

Hetzner Storage boxes are 10TB for $20/month

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I’m not going to math it out but maybe the 20tb+ drives are lower. I don’t think .01 but closer maybe.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

PC part picker starts at $0.013/GB which isn't too far off.

[–] dual_sport_dork 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

And you can grab a rando bottom-of-the-barrel 12TB from Amazon for about $0.0095825/GB (not GiB).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Yea I think the 1c/GB is a close enough approximation.

[–] slazer2au 7 points 18 hours ago

Maybe. A 20Tb drive for $350 is $0.017 so truncation maybe.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

OP includes remote storage? I guess if you're an enterprise client you can get those prices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Well used, I got 4 of em for $5

[–] slazer2au 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Comparing new and used prices is just misleading.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Sometimes I guess...? Like yeah sometimes you find great steals like I did with that but usually the used market has similar prices for similar products. Check it out and save some money