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Yeah, I read that Backblaze thing, and used their spreadsheet. Tape came out to be nearly 9x cheaper for us, given our large data set but extremely slow growth rate. Basically, we have a lot of data we need to protect from disaster, but it changes/gets added to very slowly, so capex (buy some tapes, put the data on tape, put the tapes in an offsite box and forget about them) is vastly cheaper than opex (pay by the month for hundreds of terabytes).