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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

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago

I've used Sync.com for awhile now with few issues. 1TB is about $6 a month, 2TB around $8 a month.

[–] riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago

Yandex disk. They accept credit cards.

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

On AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive 1TB will cost you $1/month. I use it as one of my off-site backup solutions.

[–] simon_greenwood@feddit.uk 0 points 11 months ago

iDrive E2 is $40 a year for 1TB S3 compatible storage and they have promotions quite often. As always with cheap storage don't rely on it and have a local NAS but it's handy for offsite. I've just transferred out of Wasabi, who were cheap but are less so now.

[–] secret_ninja@feddit.nl 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Render@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.nl 0 points 11 months 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!

[–] hotdoge42@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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@ttrpg.network 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

Sorry, can't tell how the prices are in America. But for Germany this kind of deals are around pretty often.

[–] randombullet@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

Backblaze.

9/month for unlimited storage.

I'm at 4tb stored.

[–] hjpoijnerflkjn@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Never worry about backups or lost data etc, as the provider would take care of it

This is not how it works. You still have to backup your data!

Your account can be closed due to various reasons, you accidentally delete files, some malware deletes files without you noticing it before it is too late.

A friend of mine lost some important data because of the ovh server container fire incident. Ovh had no backups.

[–] u202307011927@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

Ooofsh, thanks. You're right

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] u202307011927@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

I'd never expect to find an answer like this lol. Thankyou

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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?
[–] u202307011927@feddit.de 0 points 11 months 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

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use either Discord or the unlisted feature of a random video/audio website depending on the circumstances.

[–] u202307011927@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

How do you do that?