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melted on Jan 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download ...

Because they power down cold racks. It's called Glacier for a reason.

cm2187 on Jan 18, 2016 [–]

So they have to power them back up. But why would they care whether you then download 1gb or 1tb?

melted on Jan 18, 2016 | [–]

Because that's how they getcha. :-)

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