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What's the cheapest online storage that you know of?

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

kambusha ,

Does anyone use Proton for storage?

I’ve been contemplating hopping onto their offerings once Proton pass has added some more features.

PerogiBoi ,
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I have Proton for VPN and it came with 500gb of cloud storage with my plan. Pretty decent.

BastingChemina ,

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.

Dark_Arc ,
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I think it could be a good option in the future, but it’s pretty under baked right now.

binboupan ,

Hetzner’s Storage Box is quite cheap

Pyr_Pressure ,

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

railsdev ,

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.

Catsrules ,

How do you access your storage? Is there like a web front end? I thought Storj was more for backend storage?

railsdev ,

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 rclone to both sync it and to provide a WebDAV gateway (it supports others but they didn’t work great for my needs).

electric_nan , (edited )

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 ,

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 ,

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.

alekwithak ,

Are you hosting Jellyfin in the cloud as well?

electric_nan ,

Yes. Also on Hetzner.

soupuos ,

That makes sense! Thanks for sharing

simon_greenwood ,

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.

jormaig ,

I’m using iDrive. Quite cheap and if you want an S3 interface you can check their enterprise e2 tier.

JackGreenEarth ,

Is that Apple storage? Isn’t that called iCloud?

acceptable_pumpkin ,

Different product. I use IDrive as well since it has a native Synology app.

percentSValue ,

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.

hjpoijnerflkjn ,

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 OP ,
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Ooofsh, thanks. You’re right

Catsrules ,

Buyvm has 1TB for $5, but you need a GPS to connect to it, that is another $2. So $7 total for a small linux box with 1TB.

RalphWolf ,

A GPS? Why?

Mr_Blott ,

They hide it in a field

Catsrules ,

You use a global private server when you fat finger the G instead of a V

operator ,
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If you're into SCP/FTP/Rsync/SMB check out Hetzner Storage Servers. About 3 € for 1 TB, including 10 snapshots

metaStatic ,

Youtube

extant ,

I wanted to do my own self-hosted storage but for the cost and features I went with Dropbox. It’s $10 a month if you prepay for the year otherwise it’s $12 and you get two terabytes of storage. For that you get all the same things most self-hosted solutions will offer including 30 days of versioning/backups. Additionally it’s pretty popular so most software has built in integration which is convenient but not something you need. Bottom line is doing your own storage can be cheap but adding off-site backups gets expensive and just going straight to off-site backups (cloud storage) is going to be close to the $10-$12 dollars you’ll pay anyway but you have to do all the work.

riley0 ,

Yandex disk. They accept credit cards.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/ec4f3fa9-42bc-4fde-99a8-93d109256b17.png

TheGalacticVoid ,

Not sure about cheapest, but Wasabi is affordable considering no data transfer fees

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

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

u202307011927 OP ,
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How do you do that?

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

Most video websites have the option to make a video viewable only when someone has the link. The option is presented to you when you’re uploading it.

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