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
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    2 years 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.

    • TheLemmingOP
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      72 years ago

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

    • DarkenLM
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      282 years ago

      Now we just need to invent a way to read the Void of Nothingness to retrieve the data and bam! Infinite storage.

      • @Yawnder@lemmy.zip
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        52 years ago

        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.

      • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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        502 years ago

        That’s easy, just read from /dev/urandom. The access speed is super slow, but eventually you’ll find your data

        • zero_iq
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          92 years ago

          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.

    • asudox
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      82 years ago

      Thanks for the website, it was a funny read.

    • jelloeater
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      12 years ago

      Heck yeah, it’s great. Wasabi is nice too, but keep in mind they bill differently for storage vs retrieval.

      • @lustrum@sh.itjust.works
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        32 years ago

        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.

  • Izzy
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    532 years 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.

  • operator
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    32 years ago

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

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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    122 years 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.world
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      92 years 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.

    • 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.

  • @railsdev@programming.dev
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    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@lemmy.ml
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      How do you access your storage? Is there like a web front end? I thought Storj was more for backend storage?

      • @railsdev@programming.dev
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        22 years ago

        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).

  • @secret_ninja@feddit.nl
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    112 years 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.

    • @Render@sh.itjust.works
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      12 years 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.nl
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        32 years 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!

        • jelloeater
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          22 years ago

          I do FreeNas at home. How does RockStor work out, seems like OMV.

          • @secret_ninja@feddit.nl
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            32 years 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.world
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      12 years 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.nl
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        12 years 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.

    • @NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca
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      22 years 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.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni
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    12 years ago

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

      • Call me Lenny/Leni
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        12 years ago

        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.

  • @tailiat@lemmy.ml
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    142 years 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.

  • @Catsrules@lemmy.ml
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    42 years ago

    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.