I am in no way saying that this is cheap but 300 TB will set you back a little less than $6k with tax. Very attainable for people other than OpenAI and Facebook. And it's not crazy at all to snag a server with enough bays to house all those.

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dmicah a day ago | parent | next [-]

For reference, considering you can purchase a 12-month Spotify Premium subscription via a $99 gift card at the moment, that same $6k could be used for 60 years of Spotify Premium.

	▲	DrammBA a day ago \| parent [-]
		For reference, cosidering the backup has 86 million music files, at an average of 3 minutes per file it would take you around 490 years to listen to all the tracks.

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emsixteen 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The cost of rest of the hardware, running it constantly, and 'admin' overheads aren't to be scoffed at to be fair.

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sneak a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I have a Supermicro 24 bay 2U in my house with an array around half that size in it. It’s not prohibitive.