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@lemmy.ca
    1265·
    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.

  • Izzy@lemmy.ml
    56·
    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.

  • bus_factor@lemmy.world
    26·
    1 year ago

    If you want really good answers, you will need to be more specific about your requirements.

    The absolute cheapest as the question is stated is to go dumpster diving for a free hard drive and host it at a friend’s house, but this is likely not what you had in mind.

    • Do you need backups?
    • Does it need to be encrypted at rest?
    • What bandwidth do you need up and down?
    • Is it okay with a monthly bandwidth cap?
    • what latency is okay? Is cold storage where it takes a day or more to fetch the data okay?
    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
      13·
      1 year ago

      Exactly. How often will you use it? Every day? Just get a hard drive. Once a year? AWS Glacier is like $1 per TB per month and it can’t burn down.

    • TheLemming@feddit.deOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Well, I intend to use the offsite storage as an everyday-use-external-harddisk, I want to encrypt it, put a filesystem on top and the mount it. The thought behind it is, the provider will take care of data integrity and backups as well. Worry free usage for me then

      • bus_factor@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’s unlikely to perform well enough to be usable at all. You’d at the very least need some sync method which just updates the blocks you wrote to, and that rules out a lot of cheap storage.

        You’d be better off with either cloud storage a la Google Drive or Dropbox, either mounted from the remote location or used as storage for a sync-based backup solution. You could have it upload things instantly if it listens for save events in inotify.

  • TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee
    17·
    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.

      • 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@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.)

    • 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.

  • tailiat@lemmy.mlEnglish
    141·
    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.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 year ago

    Yet another B2 user here, I only backup things I can’t afford to lose so my monthly spend isn’t particularly high. I think the most I’ve ever paid for was around 1.5TB. One big draw for B2 is their upcoming egress policy change tomorrow: up to 3x the data stored with them is free to transfer out every day. Egress absolutely wrecks people’s storage budgets a lot of the time, restoration costs can be absurd when you need to recover data.

    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2023-product-announcement/

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
    12·
    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

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Maybe Google isn’t welcome around here, but I spend ~100/yr. for 2TB. $4.20/mo./TB.

      I map my Windows libraries to my Google Drive and I’m done. Save it and it syncs. Plus, I use Android and Gmail, so everything fits nicely in the same ecosystem.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
      4·
      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@feddit.nlEnglish
    11·
    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@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.

    • Render@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 year ago

      I wish I knew how NAS and what to do in case of a failing hard drive.

      Is it necessary to have it always powered on?

      • secret_ninja@feddit.nlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        It’s really not complicated. Look up Truenas or Rockstor. Both are solid NAS OSs. I’ve been running Rockstor for about a year now (partly because I’m a huge fan of btrfs) and I’m pretty happy with it. Make sure to keep an offline backup on an external drive just in case you mess something up. I manually plug in a drive about once a month for that. I think DIY is more fun anyway ;) and I’m sure the community will help with questions you can’t find answers to online. Good luck!

          • secret_ninja@feddit.nlEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Pretty similar. Not sure what OMV uses as a FS but Rockstor natively uses btrfs (a FS I used for years and trust) so it was a no brainer for me. Everything else works as expected, nfs, smb, snapshots, backups, etc. The only add on I decided to use on top of Rockstor itself is for Duplicati for B2 backups. I hear a lot of good things about FreeNas too.

    • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah of all the things to cheap out on, it doesn’t seem wise to do it with data storage unless you don’t mind losing it…

      • secret_ninja@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Agreed. Especially when reliable storage only costs $4-$6/tb these days. (Where I live that won’t buy you a freaking cup of coffee lol). I only back up to the cloud and pay for my important data anyway, I have terabytes of data that I don’t mind losing and therefore don’t bother backing up to the cloud.

  • hotdoge42@feddit.de
    7·
    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.