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Re:Google is killing unlimited Drive storage for non-enterpr... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @05:11PM (#24770340)
The post was about the Backblaze backup service, not B2. You can't abuse B2 by putting too much data on it!

And B2 is more or less fine for streaming. The bandwidth bill will be significantly less than the storage bill.

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Re:Google is killing unlimited Drive storage for non-enterpr... by ac29 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @07:07PM (#24771343)
Egress is more expensive than storage: 1c/GB vs 0.5c/GB-month (https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html).
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Re:Google is killing unlimited Drive storage for non-enterpr... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @09:16PM (#24772202)
Those are different units. You're making an assumption that the user watches every video in their library once per month. I doubt it. My bet is that someone with a big video library will watch significantly less than half the content each month (including repeats).

Or in other words, look at it more like 1c/GB vs. 6c/GB-year.

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