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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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.
Now we just need to invent a way to read the Void of Nothingness to retrieve the data and bam! Infinite storage.
That’s easy, just read from /dev/urandom. The access speed is super slow, but eventually you’ll find your data
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.
Try running:
sed 's/blurst of times/worst of times/g'
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.
This gave me a hearty chuckle. Thank you for showing me that wonderful piece of software.
Thanks for the website, it was a funny read.
I’d never expect to find an answer like this lol. Thankyou
Happy to help! Let me know if have any other technical questions :)
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Encrypt everything first and you’ll soon have entire communities trying to decipher it for fun.
Is this an ARG?
People will assume it’s an ARG even if it isn’t.
And then send us the links. Sharing is caring :)
That’s pretty high risk, though, since the admins could notice at any time.
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.
Hey, interesting to see you back
Where did I go?
Wasn’t there something with a LW community? Anyway, it doesn’t matter so much
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.
Good point. Perhaps at least a 2 drive NAS then. 👍
Depends what you want to do but Backblaze B2 is reasonably cheap. $6 per TB
It’s reasonably cheap and you pay only for what you use.
Yeah that’s the best for me. I use about 600GB.
500GB plans aren’t enough and 1TB plans are too much. Paying what you use is so good.
Heck yeah, it’s great. Wasabi is nice too, but keep in mind they bill differently for storage vs retrieval.
Hetzner storage box is 3.81€/month for 1TB.
Over the course of a year you basically bought an HDD (but excluding backups/power)
Off site storage is off site for a reason, though.
You could say this about any service.
You purchased a shit hard drive at that price and bad point anyway.
Eh, could be an average ish 2TB HDD
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
I’ve been using Backblaze. Have no complaints
On AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive 1TB will cost you $1/month. I use it as one of my off-site backup solutions.
Careful recommending glacier. It is shockingly, crazy expensive to retrieve data.
How much will it cost to retrieve that backup though?
Especially if you forget to tar it.
Backblaze.
9/month for unlimited storage.
I’m at 4tb stored.
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.
(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.
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.
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
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.
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.
OVH is quite cheap (£0.0024/GB-month)
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.
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.
Sorry, can’t tell how the prices are in America. But for Germany this kind of deals are around pretty often.
I second this. So much bang for your buck and it’s cheaper than Amazon prime
Like others are saying, it depends on your requirements.
I’m loving Storj as a cloud NAS. Basically I have a NAS with 8 TB of storage but if something goes wrong with that, I’m out of luck. What I did was copy everything to Storj then reconfigure the NAS to simply act as a local cache for it.
This is great because I can share my media with friends and family while using client-side encryption and it streams FAST rather than relying on my residential ISP with slow upload speeds.
How do you access your storage? Is there like a web front end? I thought Storj was more for backend storage?
They have their own CLI tool (
uplink) but it does have an S3 gateway.Yeah it’s geared more for backend stuff but I use
rcloneto both sync it and to provide a WebDAV gateway (it supports others but they didn’t work great for my needs).
