It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/tomorrowplus on 2025-03-25 14:48:49.

What are your thoughts on it?

Self-encryption seems like an important feature - in that it allows for deduplication after encryption. The same file (or block) will result in the same encrypted version regardless of who encrypted it. Assuming the network becomes big, there will be lots and lots of deduplication potential, which will of course result in lower price per unit.

It will be interesting to see where the price / TB converges. Massive deduplication will result in lower cost, but on the other hand all storage will be permanent and there will be plenty of redundancy baked in.