Niall O Broin wrote:
> On Friday 2 April 2004, johnm at rte.ie (John Moylan) wrote:
>>>>El Reg reckons that 1GB of storage only costs Google circa $2. So, the
>>scenario you mention is very plausible.
>>> The sweet spot in storage now costs about 50c / GB just for raw disks.
> Of course google pays less for disks than do you or I, but those disks
> also have to be put in something, so you end up with an all up cost of
> $X / GB, where X is rather less than El Reg said (shock! horror! El Reg
> gets something wrong about google! Film at 11)
And you have to put that something in something (namely a building).
Also the power costs for the disks isn't neglibible,
and the maintenance costs (I wonder how many disks would be/are
replaced a day in google), ....
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