• doctorcherry@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This is really greedy imo. Even with inflation the price of storage per gb has decreased by ~90% since 2009. Big downside to being so vendor locked in. It’s not like I can use something like b2 buckets as a replacement.

    See blackbaze price per gb for reference:

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      1 year ago

      Has backblaze ever lowered their prices in the entire history of the company? I don’t think so.

      The reality is hard drives aren’t the primary cost for data storage. It’s 2 cents/GB to buy the hard drive and dollars per gigabyte (over the life of a hard drive) to actually power the drive, provide access over the network, maintain backups, etc.

      The fact hte upfront cost was once 10 cents is irrelevant - none of the larger costs are getting cheaper. Some of them are going up (e.g. zero emission electricity).