&gt; if they are selling 1TB of storage, shouldn&#x27;t we get 1TB of storage?<p>You do, they&#x27;re just not allowing you to store it in 24 hours. Some services (Backblaze, if I recall) allow you to ship a drive to get around this limitation.<p>Notice that all services do this? If you can do better, build one! Prepare to go broke from the peak bandwidth requirements you&#x27;ll need to build your networking architecture to support such transfer rates, but I always encourage experimentation and learning lessons over complaints.