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Originally Posted by sandman!
on a $59 server i would not be surprised if its a used drive.
I still dont get how anyone can make any $$$$ with the cost of space and power on servers this cheap.
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Yeah, I can't figure it out either. I don't know about the costs of wholesale power where they're located but around here if you had a machine that drew an average of 200W, with a typical efficiency power supply, and behind a UPS (which again decreases the overall efficiency) you'd be paying at least $US30 a month for the power alone. Then there's air conditioning, rack space rental, network capacity upgrades, security, lighting, admin and tech staff wages, and finally we can't forget the 10 megabits of included bandwidth at an effective price of about $1 a megabit.
