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Notes on storage economics

Independent analysis on archive strategy, storage pricing, and the tradeoffs between tape, disk, and cloud — for media and entertainment teams making the call.

October 2026

Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, or Interconnect? What media archives should know before buying a private cloud link

Everyone compares the port fee. For media archives, the numbers that move the budget are redundancy, egress on large restores, and how fast you can actually move a petabyte.

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September 2026

The hidden line items that turn a cheap archive tier expensive

Cloud archive pricing pages lead with a headline $/GB rate — often a fraction of a cent. The bill that actually shows up depends on four things that never make it into that headline number.

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