I’m looking for a diskspace of possibly 1TB online
Edit: my idea is to use it like as an external harddisk for everyday stuff. Encrypt the disk, put my filesystem on it, mount it as external drive kinda. Never worry about backups or lost data etc, as the provider would take care of it
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 81•1 year ago
Since you didn’t mention your requirements, I’ll assume data integrity isn’t super important. In that case, allow me to introduce you to /dev/null as a service. It’s free and has unlimited capacity.
- DarkenLM ( @DarkenLM@kbin.social ) 21•1 year ago
Now we just need to invent a way to read the Void of Nothingness to retrieve the data and bam! Infinite storage.
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 34•1 year ago
That’s easy, just read from /dev/urandom. The access speed is super slow, but eventually you’ll find your data
- DarkenLM ( @DarkenLM@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
- zero_iq ( @zero_iq@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
Idk man, I think it might have some reliability issues… I tried restoring my data and all I got back was a badly-typed copy of the complete works of Shakespeare.
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 5•1 year ago
Try running:
sed 's/blurst of times/worst of times/g'
- Yawnder ( @Yawnder@lemmy.zip ) 4•1 year ago
Already exists, and it’s offered by IKEA. Here is the kit you need: 0 1
The only problem is that I don’t have the plans that shows how to assemble the parts.
- secret_ninja ( @secret_ninja@feddit.nl ) English8•1 year ago
This is hilarious. I love it haha
I’d never expect to find an answer like this lol. Thankyou
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 4•1 year ago
Happy to help! Let me know if have any other technical questions :)
- Izzy ( @IzzyData@lemmy.ml ) 51•1 year ago
Depends for how long. Buying a used NAS with a single 1TB drive is probably cheaper over a 10 year period than subscribing to some cloud service for the same duration.
- Blaze ( @Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de ) 5•1 year ago
Hey, interesting to see you back
- Izzy ( @IzzyData@lemmy.ml ) 15•1 year ago
Where did I go?
- Blaze ( @Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•1 year ago
Wasn’t there something with a LW community? Anyway, it doesn’t matter so much
- netburnr ( @netburnr@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
You mean three drives? You need data integrity, what if a drive fails? What if you have a raid 1 but when readding a new drive you have read errors? Parity is good.
- Izzy ( @IzzyData@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
Good point. Perhaps at least a 2 drive NAS then. 👍
- wisha ( @wisha@lemmy.ml ) 22•1 year ago
Hetzner storage box is 3.81€/month for 1TB.
- frippa ( @frippa@lemmy.ml ) 7•1 year ago
Over the course of a year you basically bought an HDD (but excluding backups/power)
- walden ( @walden@sub.wetshaving.social ) 33•1 year ago
Off site storage is off site for a reason, though.
- DogMuffins ( @DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ) English9•1 year ago
You could say this about any service.
- DogMuffins ( @DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ) English2•1 year ago
I had a hetzner box a while back but I didn’t know about these storage boxes. This is pretty great. I’ve used rsync.net for many years but it’s basically 3x the price and it’s painfully slow.
- Rocky60 ( @Rocky60@lemm.ee ) English12•1 year ago
I’ve been using Backblaze. Have no complaints
- tailiat ( @tailiat@lemmy.ml ) English10•1 year ago
(preparing for inevitable downvotes) depending on how much storage you need and the flexibility you have in how you use it, Office365 includes 1TB of OneDrive storage for 6 users for somewhere around $100/yr. I use it for storing encrypted video files from my NVR and it works for my use case, but ymmv.
- randombullet ( @randombullet@feddit.de ) 10•1 year ago
Backblaze.
9/month for unlimited storage.
I’m at 4tb stored.
- sunbeam60 ( @sunbeam60@lemmy.one ) 5•1 year ago
It’s hard (and against ToS) to access B2C Backblaze with any S3/Swift API, though. So it depends a bit on your use-case.
- TheGreenGolem ( @TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee ) 9•1 year ago
On AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive 1TB will cost you $1/month. I use it as one of my off-site backup solutions.
- Chahk ( @chahk@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
How much will it cost to retrieve that backup though?
- Nath ( @Nath@aussie.zone ) 4•1 year ago
Around $120/TB from memory when I looked into it.
That’s too much for regular stuff, but if you’re using it to store your family photos and videos off-site in case of a fire etc, you’d pay it. Hmmm… I wonder whether you could get insurance to cover it?
- TheGreenGolem ( @TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee ) 4•1 year ago
I use it exactly for that. It’s a secondary, long term backup which I plan to hopefully never retrieve. It’s basically write-only for me and I hope it will remain that way. (Because if it’s not, I lost my on-site backup AND my primary cloud backup as well. So I’m probably very fucked.)
- GreatAlbatross ( @GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ) English1•1 year ago
Especially if you forget to tar it.
- sunbeam60 ( @sunbeam60@lemmy.one ) 8•1 year ago
OVH is quite cheap (£0.0024/GB-month)
- 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏 ( @lemann@lemmy.one ) 8•1 year ago
Another Backblaze user checking in 😁 I use their B2 service for $6/TB/mo, however they have an unlimited storage option for Windows/Mac if you’re interested in that
- 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 ( @sxan@midwest.social ) 3•1 year ago
Awesome company that makes it eau to interface worth their storage outside of their proprietary tools, resulting in wide support built in to a bunch of backup software. Have no issue with you storing encrypted blobs. But - and this is most important - they don’t harvest your data and resell or reuse it (although, always encrypt, to be sure).
Fantastic company.
- secret_ninja ( @secret_ninja@feddit.nl ) English6•1 year ago
I’ll just say this: you get what you pay for. I used pCloud a few years ago and wasn’t able to retrieve all my data, some files got corrupted (luckily I had backups). Now I use a DIY NAS and backup to B2.
- NotAnArdvark ( @NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
This is only slightly related - I lost a small number of files with DreamHost object storage, and they were charging more than S3 per GB.
So, I agree you usually get what you pay for, but also make sure the provider is all-in on the product. I think DreamHost really isn’t interested in their virtualized/cloud offerings.
- Pyr_Pressure ( @Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ) 6•1 year ago
I’ve used Sync.com for awhile now with few issues. 1TB is about $6 a month, 2TB around $8 a month.
- electric_nan ( @electric_nan@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 year ago
Check out Hetzner Storage Box. I’ve got 20TB for my Jellyfin library and it’s $50/mo.
Edit: use rclone to mount it as a network drive on your desktop.
Edit 2: Just checked and it’s $40/month
- soupuos ( @soupuos@sopuli.xyz ) 2•1 year ago
I’m kind of curious why you don’t just buy a HDD or two. At $600 a year you’d break even really quickly.
- electric_nan ( @electric_nan@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
It’s a good question. If I had something like gigabit internet with high upload speeds I probably would (and eventually will). Right now though, I use Jellyfin from wherever I am, and I share it with a few friends and family too.
- soupuos ( @soupuos@sopuli.xyz ) 2•1 year ago
That makes sense! Thanks for sharing
- jormaig ( @jormaig@programming.dev ) 5•1 year ago
I’m using iDrive. Quite cheap and if you want an S3 interface you can check their enterprise e2 tier.
- JackGreenEarth ( @JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
Is that Apple storage? Isn’t that called iCloud?
- percentSValue ( @percentSValue@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
They also have a super low-end tier of 500GB for 9.95 a year, less than a dollar a month, which is nice for a not so heavy user.
- hotdoge42 ( @hotdoge42@feddit.de ) 5•1 year ago
OneDrive with Microsoft 365 Family subscription. There are several deals for 50€ per 15 Month for 1TB per Account. Since it is the family subscription you’ll get up to 6 Accounts. So it is 3.33€ for 6TB or 0.55€ per TB.
- jasondj ( @jasondj@ttrpg.network ) 2•1 year ago
Where is MS Office 50€/15mo and can I use it in America? Been thinking about getting a new domain since I failed to get off google workspaces in time.
- hotdoge42 ( @hotdoge42@feddit.de ) 1•1 year ago
Sorry, can’t tell how the prices are in America. But for Germany this kind of deals are around pretty often.
- Sensitivezombie ( @Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip ) 1•1 year ago
I second this. So much bang for your buck and it’s cheaper than Amazon prime
- kambusha ( @kambusha@feddit.ch ) 4•1 year ago
Does anyone use Proton for storage?
I’ve been contemplating hopping onto their offerings once Proton pass has added some more features.
- BastingChemina ( @BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ) 3•1 year ago
I tried but for me the upload was very slow and not very practical.
They only have a windows app for now, so to back up my NAS the only solution I found was to create a windows VM, a virtual disk pointed at my data on the NAS and running the VM regularly to back up the data.
I gave up after few weeks and went to backblaze.
- PerogiBoi ( @PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ) English2•1 year ago
I have Proton for VPN and it came with 500gb of cloud storage with my plan. Pretty decent.
- Dark Arc ( @Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ) English1•1 year ago
I think it could be a good option in the future, but it’s pretty under baked right now.