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yapcguy | 12 years ago

50 x 50GB blu-ray discs, for over 2TB of storage, only costs $126 at Amazon.

A 2TB portable USB drive costs $100.

But no, let's just upload everything to Google Drive.

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fixermark|12 years ago

I would assume it's not about storage; it's about processing.

The bold byline of BigQuery (https://developers.google.com/bigquery/) is "Analyze terabytes of data in seconds."

Store the data locally? Easily. Set up the necessary back-end infrastructure to sift, twist, and churn the data efficiently? Now you're talking hiring some people to set up an infrastructure for that... Or you could upload it to Google and use their infrastructure.