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Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing

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Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing

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Charging for storage is becoming silly. Its essentially free. Storage is growing faster than humanity can fill it, and at an ever-spiraling decreasing price. It'd be like charging for windows-up or windows-down on a taxi ride.

It's a proxy for usage that fairly non-technical consumers can understand.

> It'd be like charging for windows-up or windows-down on a taxi ride.

Or like charging for time or distance travelled, when the 'real cost' is fuel?

Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing

#13

Charging for storage is becoming silly. Its essentially free. Storage is growing faster than humanity can fill it, and at an ever-spiraling decreasing price. It'd be like charging for windows-up or windows-down on a taxi ride.

>> essentially free

Well Google is going to charge you $240 annually for a TB of storage now.

Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing

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Charging for storage is becoming silly. Its essentially free. Storage is growing faster than humanity can fill it, and at an ever-spiraling decreasing price. It'd be like charging for windows-up or windows-down on a taxi ride.

> Charging for storage is becoming silly. Its essentially free. Storage is growing faster than humanity can fill it, and at an ever-spiraling decreasing price. And yet I can't find a cheap host for 2-4TB that's not like $10/month or so... even with Glacier it's $16/4TB/month...

KS-3 Server - Atom N2800 - 4GB DDR3 1066 MHz - 2TB SATA $9.99/month

https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/order/kimsufi.xml?reference=18...

No RAID, but it's in your desired price range.

Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Charging for storage is becoming silly. Its essentially free. Storage is growing faster than humanity can fill it, and at an ever-spiraling decreasing price. And yet I can't find a cheap host for 2-4TB that's not like $10/month or so... even with Glacier it's $16/4TB/month...

KS-3 Server - Atom N2800 - 4GB DDR3 1066 MHz - 2TB SATA $9.99/month https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/order/kimsufi.xml?reference=18... No RAID, but it's in your desired price range.

Yep, it's possible with a dedicated or vps with 4TB or more, but this doesn't suit my use case (backup).

I want the storage replicated geo-redunduntly backed-up and safer, Glacier/Backblaze/etc-style, not just lost whenever someone breaks into the server or there's a hardware issue at the hosting company, etc. Basically "upload and forget"...

Same way, I can't find any good Squarespace/Ghost/Wordpress.com style service where I can run 3-4 sites that's not like $10/month per site or so...

I'd appreciate a service that charges you based on actual traffic load, not mere website count/custom domain, and that is "post content and forget".

Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing

#17

Charging for storage is becoming silly. Its essentially free. Storage is growing faster than humanity can fill it, and at an ever-spiraling decreasing price. It'd be like charging for windows-up or windows-down on a taxi ride.

Where does this meme of "storage is essentially free" come from? A 4TB drive is already like ~$100 and that's without any fault tolerance. Now purchase some for yourself, geo-replicate it across the world, make it be online 24/7 and accessible with high speed worldwide, and tell me how it came out to be "essentially free"?

Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing

#19

Charging for storage is becoming silly. Its essentially free. Storage is growing faster than humanity can fill it, and at an ever-spiraling decreasing price. It'd be like charging for windows-up or windows-down on a taxi ride.

Maybe close to free on a per bit basis but I guess electricity, bandwidth, redundancy etc aren't. Photos is one of the products I'm actually happy to pay for extra storage. €100 buys my 2TB of storage that I can share with my wife and my kids when they are old enough. Knowing that any pic I snap is backed up is worth the cost, photographs are one of the few things that are truly irreplaceable. Saying that based on advice from other threads I'll be doing a regular download from takeout.google.xom

Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing

#20

Charging for storage is becoming silly. Its essentially free. Storage is growing faster than humanity can fill it, and at an ever-spiraling decreasing price. It'd be like charging for windows-up or windows-down on a taxi ride.

Those data centres just build themselves, right?
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