FabioV
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The alternative for storing 50TB data in the cheapest way is on HDD. The bare HDD hardware will cost you more than 1.000 € (5 disks of 10TB). And probably you'd want to add a NAS, for managing your storage in an efficient way. The typical size is 4 bay at about 600 € each and you need at least two.
If you want to add some redundancy implementing a RAID architecture, you to almost double that investment. Let's say 3.200€. To spend the same amount of money at 23€ per months it takes 11,5 years ...
In the meantime, probably some disks will need to be replaced. And they can get stolen, or damaged, if your house have some accident (fire, water, ...).
You need also to take into account the cost of energy and the space it takes in your house.
Taking into account all those consideration, you'll find that a cloud storage is not expensive at all. And it's very safe, compared to an in-house data storage.
The network bandwidth can be an issue. Not for me: I've 300 Mbit/s upload and 2.500 Mbit/s download.
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