I payed about $350 for my 20TB drives, which at the rate offered here would pay of in less then 3 months. Add some overhead in for a NAS and some extra drives for a raid and it still easily pays of in half a year.
Shitty deal.
And the very first sentence says:
Unless you self-host at home on your own NAS
Own hardware is always cheaper in the long run
True, but S3 offers you extremely high availability and security for a quite fair price, and not everyone wants to immediately self host on their own hardware.
Cheaper to use Backblaze b2
Indeed, the article was written with Backblaze B2 as the S3-compatible storage used.
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Or Wasabi
I stick data I will almost certainly never access again on glacier deep archive. Dirt cheap. Good place to escrow data.
Wasabi have similar pricing to glacier, but without the limitation
What do you do if your hardware is housed at home with crappy residential upload speeds?
It’s a genuine question because I’ve settled for hosting on Storj, but because my friends and family can’t be bothered to connect via its client I’m running a WebDAV
rclone
proxy on a VPS over Tailscale. So not only am I paying for the storage itself, I’m also paying for transferring the data and on top of all that, it defeats the point of Storj being P2P from and end-user perspective.I got downvoted for this? 😂
Why should I use JuiceFS instead of rclone though?
Use rclone
I think rclone has somewhat bad latency, at least from prior experience (albeit with Google Drive). JuiceFS seems to cache locally and can run my Immich instance, etc. With pretty good performance
In Canada, external hard drives of 8-20TB capacity show up every now and then for a rate of C$20/TB (US$14.50) so it won’t take more than 3 months to offset that cost. As a backup, online s3 storage might be reasonable.
E - Speak of the devil: https://lemmy.ca/post/23948873
Guys, read the article first! At least try, at the beginning it says:
Unless you self-host at home on your own NAS