Obviously they paid more in storage in the past than today and it is a different solution but if you were to buy 50 PetaBytes today in one of Backblaze's Storage Pod 6.0s it would be $1,750,000.
And there is ongoing maintenance & costs of drive failures.
I feel the need to donate to Internet Archive soon, as I have greatly benefited from it in the past and am sure to in the future too!
From https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-10-year... on September 24, 2019.
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Storage Pod 1.0 allowed us to store one petabyte of data for about $81,000.
Today we’ve lowered that to about $35,000 with Storage Pod 6.0.
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Obviously they paid more in storage in the past than today and it is a different solution but if you were to buy 50 PetaBytes today in one of Backblaze's Storage Pod 6.0s it would be $1,750,000.
And there is ongoing maintenance & costs of drive failures.
I feel the need to donate to Internet Archive soon, as I have greatly benefited from it in the past and am sure to in the future too!