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Re:Seagate Announces 12 TB HDD: 2nd-Gen Helium-Filled HDD by deftnerd on Thursday March 16, 2017 @06:58PM (#13889924)
Delimiter has $10/mo "bring your own drive" storage plans. Just buy this drive and ship it to them and share it with a VPS or cheap server there and you can store a lot of media for a cloud Plex server
Re:Seagate Announces 12 TB HDD: 2nd-Gen Helium-Filled HDD by yourapostasy on Thursday March 16, 2017 @08:40PM (#13890417)
When I looked [1], it reads as if they have an 8 TB cap on this service. That is, you can ship them any drive, up to 8 TB, to plug in and run at $10 per month. It sounds like their pricing is predicated on some kind of assumed Watt-hours per TB.

It would be interesting if someone offered a similar plan, but priced on energy consumed instead, giving incentive for managed storage arrays that power down drives that idle (for some algorithmically-derived definition of "idle", trading off against projected lifespan of the device due to increased power cycling), and other energy-saving practices. Slices up the granularity of cloud hosting even finer.

[1] https://www.delimiter.com/slot-hosting/