Astraweb retention being increased to 270 days

**xuxoxux** · 01-01-2009, 07:43 PM

Hummm. I am definitely looking forward to this.

**basilhaydens** · 01-01-2009, 07:46 PM

Fantastic!!

**rippinitup4fun** · 01-02-2009, 01:20 AM

Great news.

**Skiz** · 01-02-2009, 01:28 AM

Considering how cheap storage has become, this shouldn't be much of a shock.

Perhaps Giganews will extend their retention or drop prices?

**basilhaydens** · 01-02-2009, 03:35 AM

Giganews to 300+ is my bet.

**rippinitup4fun** · 01-02-2009, 04:45 AM

Originally Posted by basilhaydens

Giganews to 300+ is my bet.

Agreed.

They need to do something to keep justifying the extra 15-20 dollars more per month that they charge for unlimited accounts.

**Beck38** · 01-02-2009, 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by Skizo

Considering how cheap storage has become, this shouldn't be much of a shock.

Perhaps Giganews will extend their retention or drop prices?

With others also extending their storage, I see a price war on the near horizon.

The cost of storage, particularly with SATA drives, continues it's downward spiral. Prices now are breaching < $100/terabyte, I just bought two 1.5T at less than that level ($140).

So the next 'level' will be 365 days retention, it's almost within an easy shot right now. But every once in a while I do a 'sight check' on GN retention, and they're still 'ramping up' on the popular binary groups, still quite a bit short on retention there (last check a couple weeks ago showed around 170+ days).

**Sova** · 01-02-2009, 02:49 PM

All in all it's all good for us consumers. Some healthy competition is a good thing.
I've been an Astraweb user for a year now and I'm very satisfied with their services.

All i can say is Astraweb FTW

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