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by bigiain 4810 days ago
"3TB hard drives cost ~$130 these days and have room to store … "

No trying to call out jinknee specifically, but I often see this argument:

"But storage only costs ~$50/TB!",

and I read:

"here's someone who's got no idea - who's never seen what 'enterprise' pays for proper secured/redundant/backed-up/auditable/managed storage."

Does anyone _really_ think sending the IT department junior round to BestBuy to grab ~$400 worth of external USB drives would then let you say "Right, that's then next 5 years worth of storage and archive of high-security and potentially-lawsuit-relevant employee data sorted!"?