Figure, if you store 2TB, you just cost them at least 4 or 5 2TB HDDs, because they not only need redundancy, but they also need a backup of your backup, and thats only in a single datacenter. When a single user starts storing enough data to use up 5, 6, 7, or more full hard drives, that $5 is no longer paying for what that user is actually costing the company, and they want that user gone. ![]() They are banking on people(grandmas) paying the troll toll of $5 per month to store a few GB worth of data, only taking up a fraction of a percent of an data pool. Is this really surprising though? crashplan and backblaze do the same thing. ![]() Just make sure to tag the post with the flair and give a little background info/context. On Fridays we'll allow posts that don't normally fit in the usual data-hoarding theme, including posts that would usually be removed by rule 4: “No memes or 'look at this '”
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