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Steko on Feb 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google's fiber leeching caper

"storage cost about $12/GB "

Hard drives cost $12/GB. Tapes/optical media maybe $1/GB. Maybe I'm missing something but it seems like they would be fine for this.

jamesaguilar on Feb 20, 2013 [–]

Enterprise tape drives ain't cheap iirc. But anyway, I was responding specifically to the HDD idea.

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