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by belorn
3640 days ago
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From the perspective of sustainable, I can find retail harddrives for about €0.023 per GB (not counting taxes). This site take €0.002 per month, so with a very simplistic view, a harddrive is producing profits after about a year. There is of course many additional costs, and they could also be getting a better deal than current retail prices, but from a pure question of "X+1 customer mean a gain or a loss", I would lean towards sustainable. |
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A half-hour support call is going to cost something like €10 - for which you need to service 5TB-months of data (ie one month of 5000GB of data at 0.2 euro-cents pays for the support cost in min. wage employees).
It's great if this is a sustainable business as I only have 1TB of data at home and probably only a third of that needs backing up. So 4TB-months of data per annum, €8 - that's much cheaper than buying a HDD myself c. £50 [currently €60] which I expect to have c. 5 years of life. Though the A in ADSL then starts getting really annoying.