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Apple Adds 6TB and 12TB iCloud+ Storage Tiers (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Prices should be going down

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Should at least offer 10-15GB as the fee tier at least, it’s 2023. Or add 5GB per owned/registered and in use device.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should they? The cost of everything is going up not down.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Storage costs are definitely going down.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe you’re thinking of home devices as opposed to commercial products that pay salaries for employees buildings, IT infrastructure, R&D, development, security, etc?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but that’s been slowing. They’re reaching limits until the next advance in HDDs.

Flash is still much more expensive per GB.

Power costs, server costs and Datacenter space are going up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The next advance on HDDs literally came last year. 20tb+ drives are available at ever decreasing prices these days, after being stalled at 16/18tb for a good few years.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’ve been out for a while, but it’s the same SMR tech. HAMR/MAMR are just starting to get going that will enable the next leap. But they’re not shipping in volume and reliability isn’t yet known. It’ll be a bit before you see them in widespread use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The HAMR/MAMR are exactly what I'm talking about. It is obviously unproven, but you can get new 20/22tb CMR HDDs now for 17.5¢ per GB very regularly, not counting sales. They're what I'm currently running, and the normal price has dropped something close to 20% in the last year alone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

HAMR is still not out, but will be 30+TB. We’ve had 20+TB drives for a long time. They’ve been plateaud there for a while.

Price per GB hasn’t really been coming down much on CMR/SMR.

Which was my point. Until HAMR is in use and at mass production, storage costs haven’t really come down.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There really should be something in the 500GB-1TB range for like $5-6 or at least just allow people to buy multiples of the lower tiers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Please. And the 200GB price should get bumped down to $2 to match Google’s low-tier pricing.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s incredibly silly that you can just run out of the top iCloud storage tiers. It’s not something most people will run into probably… but it’s really weird that they won’t just sell you more. Glad there’s some higher tiers now, but I hate bucket sizes like this. I wish it was more granular and we paid per byte or something.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But that way they cannot charge you for the storage you don’t use

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is almost certainly the primary reason why they do this… It’s just a dick move. Especially since, sure, per byte the accounting gets more complicated… but there’s no reason to not let people buy storage in reasonably sized increments. Even 50gb at a time would be an improvement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

hey so what are you guys using to back up your iphones or at least the photos? i guess some of you use a mac or a NAS with some kind of software? or are we all paying clpud subscriptions?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

PhotoSync app with a nas

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

icloud 200gb and photoprism for the rest

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PCloud, once in a lifetime payment. Quite happy with it and works well with RSync

Just buy it on black friday as it's usually their lowest "on sale" price (they are always on sale it seems)