The cost of service-based offsite backup hosting is also kind of fucked, as I found out when looking into some of the logistics required to make the jump to Linux. Turns out all the services that offer "we'll offer storage to back up your shit for $X/month" quickly turn into "We'll offer Y TB of storage for $X/month" real quick once they realize you're tech savvy enough to wander outside of a Windows ecosystem. Ballpark numbers are about $7 per TB/month. Anyone who's serious about backing up their stuff is going to have that bill balloon to an exorbitant price tag pretty damn fast. I'm looking at close to $600 per year just to back up my main tower, which is nuts and a non-zero part of my decision to stop exploring the switch to Linux. Can I afford it? Yes. Is it a reasonable price tag for a consumer level service? Not really. I'll stick to my $100/year plan that keeps me locked into the OS I was already using thanks.
I've pretty much abandoned physical media, barring occasional book purchases, but I also have .mp3s that are old enough to rent a car.
I have never paid for a .mp3.
Do you control the physical media on which your file are stored? If so, still counts.
This is why the storage prices going up 250% to 500% in a few months pisses me off so much. It's becomming unaffordable to keep your own content.
Especially if you keep several copies to ensure data integrity and recovery from storage failure ( like RAID 1 ) and you need 2+ times the space.
The cost of service-based offsite backup hosting is also kind of fucked, as I found out when looking into some of the logistics required to make the jump to Linux. Turns out all the services that offer "we'll offer storage to back up your shit for $X/month" quickly turn into "We'll offer Y TB of storage for $X/month" real quick once they realize you're tech savvy enough to wander outside of a Windows ecosystem. Ballpark numbers are about $7 per TB/month. Anyone who's serious about backing up their stuff is going to have that bill balloon to an exorbitant price tag pretty damn fast. I'm looking at close to $600 per year just to back up my main tower, which is nuts and a non-zero part of my decision to stop exploring the switch to Linux. Can I afford it? Yes. Is it a reasonable price tag for a consumer level service? Not really. I'll stick to my $100/year plan that keeps me locked into the OS I was already using thanks.
Strange that Blurays haven't been pulled back when there is a better business case for them now.
I feel like this is implied in my statement about never having paid for a .mp3.