[rizkeyz]

I did the back-of-the-envelope math once. You get a Petabyte of storage today for $60K/year if you buy the hardware (retail disks, server, energy). It actually fits into the corner of a room. What do you get for $60K in AWS S3? Maybe a PB for 3 months (w/o egress).

If you replace all your hardware every year, the cloud is 4x more expensive. If you manage to use your getto-cloud for 5 year, you are 20x cheaper than Amazon.

To store one TB per person on this planet in 2022, it would take a mere $500M to do that. That's short change for a slightly bigger company these days.

I guess by 2030 we should be able to record everything a human says, sees, hears and speaks in an entire life for every human on this planet.

And by 2040 we should be able to have machines learning all about human life, expression and intelligence to slowly making sense of all of this.

[arein3]

>I guess by 2030 we should be able to record everything a human says, sees, hears and speaks in an entire life for every human on this planet.

That's a very good point.

Are you employed?

Would you like to join Meta?

[gmiller123456]

I don't get what's going on with on-line storage. You can walk in Best Buy and get a few Tb hard drive for well under $100. Yet every cloud service wants to charge you several times that per year for just 1Tb. I understand drives fail, there's operating cost, and some need extremely low latency. But there seems to be a huge disparity between what a hard drive costs, and what it costs to make it available on the Internet.

[tekknik]

There’s a difference between a consumer drive and a server drive. Plop that $100 drive in and you may be back in a week or so replacing it.

[gmiller123456]

Why would you think a drive automatically looses lifespan just because the computer it's in is referred to as a server? Many of my desktop hard drives see more activity that some of my website HDs.

[tekknik]

Because a server has more traffic than a consumer machine. You’re mistaken if you think your home server has the same traffic as an S3 storage node.

Read more about the differences in drives here: https://blog.storagecraft.com/consumer-vs-enterprise-hard-dr...

[gmiller123456]

Again, you're making assumptions about how busy a server has to be. I have websites that don't get 10 visitors a day.

[mritzmann]

And your website, with 10 visits per day, needs several TB of data?