Storage Cost Debate
Commenters debate whether data storage is cheap or expensive, particularly for cloud providers, and discuss its implications for service pricing and economics.
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Good news(?), storage is expensive now, so this may get more attention.
Storage exists, and will continue to get cheaper.
Is it still a 1/5th of the cost if you have to factor in storage?
It's not like they can just give away unlimited storage.
It costs them lots of cents to store those bits of data, it's only fair!
Source that storage isn't that expensive? What I've read has said the opposite. If that's true then I'll adjust my views accordingly.
considering storage is cheap, this seems like a great idea
Until the cost of storage is 0, this is all still a thing.
Well, storage is basically free these days, right? :-)
Why pay for storage when you do it for them?