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According to the Internet Society, in 2020, the total amount of data on the Internet reached 5.2 zettabytes.
Those 5.2 zettabytes are equivalent to 5,400,000 Petabytes or also 5,400,000,000 Terabytes. There is a Nimbus ExaDrive DC that costs $40,000 and can store 100 TB.
If we divide the 5,400,000,000 TB by 100 TB, we get 54,000,000 units, and multiplying that by $40,000, we get $2,160,000,000,000.
And that unit for each GB costs 2.5 dollars.
Probably more fair to go with standard enterprise drives like Exos or ultrastar
Don’t forget a backup, so 2.5x the cost
You can get a 1TB drive for much less than $400
I mean, you can check out disk prices to get a good reference
Hard to say… butI am 100% sure that adult content would be more expensive than any useful knowledge.
I mean… It kinda already is? Wikipedia and other sources of knowledge are free to use. Many porn sites are not.
About tree fiddy?
During the blockchain craze there were attempts of monetising distributed data storage by cryptobros renting out disk space for virtual currency. AFAICR it turned out more expensive and less reliable than most any competitive datacenter. So my guess is that it would be much less than you imagine.
