"...Flickr recently announced that they were going to give everyone one terabyte of storage for free. Fine, but go up to two terabytes and it'll cost you $499.99 per year... Amazon will charge you about $122 per terabyte per year. But remember that you can buy a 2TB drive and keep it in a quasi-server in your house for $100. The cost of storing an individual archive needs to be something like $20 per year..."Also noting: storing does not equal preserving... that ongoing maintenance, migration, etc has costs associatedPersonal digital archiving -- we need to fix the scale problemhttp://www.zdnet.com/personal-digital-archiving-we-need-to-fix-the-scale-problem-7000017754/
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