ralakus

Another weird UHT enjoyer here. If it weren't so expensive where I'm at then I'd be having it more often

:(

$100/month tier of course

What are you doing step-code?

They'll just get a harshly worded letter or something

"And have the courts garnish half of any future income to pay off this operation plus interest."

Virginia implemented a universal background check law a couple years ago that banned private sales without going through an FFL so they can be removed from the list. Though I'm not sure about the other half of the country

Get ready to hear it almost every day now

I did a bit of searching and found a reddit threat that looks like this one but posted 6 months ago.

The only answer that looked somewhat correct was "Because they always have a spare in their trunks." posted by u/A_Nice_Shrubbery777

Reddit thread for those interested: https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1e1qbg9/a_joke_with_no_answer/

There is a much cheaper way that doesn't use hard drives. It uses magnetic tapes, LTO-9 tapes specifically.

Each LTO-9 tape cassette can hold up to 45TB of data (compression is used to store it on the raw 18TB).

An LTO-9 tape drive can cost $10,000. Assuming you get the full 45TB per tape, you'll need 2223 LTO-9 tape cassettes to store 100PB. Assuming you buy in bulk, you can get each tape cassette for $150 which puts you at $333,450 for the tapes.

Since the tapes don't use power when not in use, this concludes the total cost. None of this accounts for storing all 2223 tapes or maintenance to ensure data is still intact on them but this comes out to $343,450 in total to store 100PB using magnetic tapes. While the cost is much cheaper, it's much harder to access the data as it's not immediately available since you have to fish out the drive you need and plop it into the tape drive then wait for it to read.