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iCloud and Google storage plans are overpriced? I have always thought they are cheap storage plans. 50GB of iCloud costs $0.99 per month. 2TB costs $10 which is similar to other solutions such as Dropbox or OneDrive.

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That's $5 per TB. In Hetzner I can rent a 5TB storage box for $11.32, that's $2.27 per TB.

But that Hetzner storage box isn't redundant, doesn't do revisions, automatic sync and backups, etc. without some time spent on it.

Yet someone could provide all of that for _everyone_ for literal 0-cost, and probably an actual ISP would provide at least some written guarantees on the redundancy of your data.

The business model of all these companies is to tie their software to their expensive storage.

But it's not 0 cost. You need storage redundancy, backups, software updates. Those things cost time.

Yes, it does. It has automatic snapshots, up to ten. Google doesn't have that, if I delete a file from the trash is gone forever.

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