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One Cent Per Gigabyte
From
Lawrence D'Oliveiro
@21:1/5 to
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on Sun Aug 10 08:02:40 2025
How cheap is persistent storage space these days? How about 1¢/GB for
a 24TB disk drive <
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/seagates-monstrous-barracuda-24tb-hard-drive-on-sale-for-only-one-cent-per-gigabyte-drops-back-to-prime-day-pricing-at-usd250>?
That is a special discounted price, but even the regular price is only
20% more, so still less than 1¼¢/GB.
And it’s a CMR disk, not SMR.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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