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Posted by washere
Mar 15, 2018 at 02:53 AM
I don’t think it’s necessarily Degoo going going gone. Can get several gigs free storage from many free cloud or email accounts easily nowadays. Ten or fifteen years ago that was huge, now it’s nothing special. Three TB will not be as huge as it might seem now. New massive storage devices & super fast fiber optic connections are constantly under R&D by various companies. There’s already a 2TB SD card prototype, might hit the actual market by the end of decade.
PR and word of mouth can be priceless. Plus merely talking about it as in this thread: Warhol said, doesn’t matter if they say bad things about me, as long as they keep talking, any publicity is good publicity.
Posted by Lothar Scholz
Mar 15, 2018 at 04:32 AM
> New massive
>storage devices & super fast fiber optic connections are constantly
>under R&D by various companies.
But the per capacity is the same as 5 years ago. That has hurt lots of companies who had a sinking hardware cost calculation in their business plan.
(like my company did :-( ).
Posted by washere
Mar 15, 2018 at 03:01 PM
Lothar Scholz wrote:
> New massive
>>storage devices & super fast fiber optic connections are constantly
>>under R&D by various companies.
>
>But the per capacity is the same as 5 years ago. That has hurt lots of
>companies who had a sinking hardware cost calculation in their business
>plan.
>(like my company did :-( ).
I think the Degoo price is what they spend on a 3TB drive, as they buy in bulk too, and just track it up in a raid. It’s not unrealistic, just building up client base, like shareware, as many clever firms always do.
As to the current quagmire or progress bottleneck in storage capacity/price, it is due to the limitations of spinning disc mechanisms. It’s ancient and reached its envelopes for cost, performance & capacity at around 10TB. Like a CD or floppy disk, it’s basically a phonograph or vinyl record idea. Currently R&D is into everything from crystals to even biologic memory holders and lots more.
Realistically though, the next phase is cheaper and larger SSD drives. I can’t imagine using a bootup drive not being SSD these days, twenty something seconds versus a minute or two not to mention slower performance too for caching & programs & data.
15TB SSD is already on the market for just over $10K. Toshiba and Samsung have been talking of their secret 128TB SSD drive prototypes. But once again to be realistic for the next few years, would be looking at multi TB SSD drives for multi hundred dollars. Once it happens, and it will, slower spinning drives are history. The question is how soon.
Posted by washere
Mar 15, 2018 at 03:09 PM
And once the cheap mass manufacture tech for large capacity SSD chips is cracked, others join in & the cycle begins again, capacity goes up & price drops. Until the next big thing.
Posted by satis
May 9, 2018 at 02:21 PM
FYI I looked into this a bit more but forgot to write about it. Turns out Degoo is a P2P backup solution, it takes slices of your computer’s time for processing and older, now-deleted reviews claimed at one point the software was using user computers for bitcoin-mining.
Two months later, that Stacksocial deal for Degoo is STILL in effect ($60/2Tb, $65/3Tb), and the site itself is still hawking 2Tb for $119/year.
Doesn’t smell right to me.