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Looking at Alipay I can find 256TB drives to the tune of 26 USD. If I needed 3 of them for some reliability and change them every ten months, I still have a cost of ~ USD 0.03/TB/month. Why is offline storage still so expensive nowadays? Is it all simply the network costs?

(Apologies for promoting this advertisement thread unintentionally; the real question is for S3, Backblaze and the like.)

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I think you mean 256 Gb

No please check Alipay/aliexpress for prices. You can also get usb keys nowadays for 32TB or more for less than USD 10. Maybe they are mostly scams, but if I were to extrapolate from price trends of a few years back when I bought drives more regularly either these prices are possible soon or we hit tech barriers I’m curious about.

Those are almost certainly fake capacities.

Welcome to the internet. Prepare to involuntarily part ways with your money.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-freeware-detects-fake-...

Thanks. And how is this different from the offering of the original poster?

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