Comment by hinkley
21 hours ago
Once you include internet latency hard drive latency isn’t that much worse. It won’t help but it won’t stop it.
21 hours ago
Once you include internet latency hard drive latency isn’t that much worse. It won’t help but it won’t stop it.
Hard disk drive prices are also soaring. Looking up a random WD drive: up 70% since July, a Seagate drive, up 50%
For $125, which is also about the price of one year of cloud storage, you can get a hard drive big enough to store half a million photos and also back up a million photos. It probably won't ever go over $200.
And the hardware to serve that hard drive is somewhere between free and another hundred.
Sure, but then you're putting all your eggs in one basket (hard drive). If you really want to divest yourself of the cloud then you need to set things up in a redundant and fault-tolerant fashion. And at that point the outlay is much more than 'just a hard drive'.
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