right now you can go on best buy and order a 26 TB hard drive on sale for $279. that's a little over $10 / TB. u can easily shuck these external drives to get at the hardware inside, might need to tape over the third pin but otherwise plug straight into any NAS

one or two of these sales cycles and u can trivially have 250 TB of storage capacity for ~$2600. yours, permanently. meanwhile AWS will charge you about $35k to store the same amount of data in S3 for a year, with their "infrequent access" tier

unless ur hosting video, a vast majority of startups never even come close to needing 100 TB of storage. truly we still live in an era of shockingly small data