Care to elaborate? What you’re saying doesn’t match my experience.
I’ve paid pennies a year to store data in s3 for the better part of 5 years. Can’t even buy a hdd with what I’ve spent on s3.
I’ve paid pennies a year to store data in s3 for the better part of 5 years. Can’t even buy a hdd with what I’ve spent on s3.
I don’t think it’s so easily observed at scale though, because at that point it’s hardly just the hdd cost anymore. It’s the hdd, server/compute, cabling, cooling, power, facilities, security, cabling, maintenance.
The TCO of data storage isn't just the drive - it just so happens that it’s still less than the cost of a drive up to some threshold. I don’t know if anyone having done a full cost model comparison. Everything I’ve ever seen assumes the data center is free.