Define “cheap.”
Is there a site where I can upload about 600gb to 1tb worth of files for free or on the cheap side and reliant? As a backup incase hardware problems?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Hirohito@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
Y’all need to stop calling Don stupid for asking these kind of easily searched questions. Don smart as hell and got you puds acting like you Don’s personal free ChatGPT smh
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Your own RPi and a 1TB micro USB
Get two, keep in separate locations
spacegoat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This but optiplex
fubo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dropbox will sell you 2TB of easily-accessed highly-reliable storage for like $10/month.
pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr 3 weeks ago
I’m uploading my encrypted backups to backblaze
ten8tp@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I think I pay ~$12-$13USD for 3TB of storage with BB2. It’s been great. Nightly incremental backups with TrueNAS. Haven’t had the need yet to pull down the data (which I should, you should test your backups with a restore on occasion), but I have peace of mind knowing it’s there and encrypted.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can’'t because 1TB of storage forever isn’t free for them why would it be free for you?
Basically what you want is all files you own should be on more than one drive and computer. Not just raid where the raid array can be damaged or the file overwritten by a careless mistake.
Basically my local files are incrementally synced daily from my computers -> a single board computer with 2 3.5" slots and a big ass drive with zfs. Because ZFS/BTRFS support incremental syncs it normally takes 1-3 minutes daily to send changed files per computer. ZFS also knows when its own data is corrupt and if I find any I can resync known good data from the known good copy.
If the big ass drive dies all the data is on the other machines and I can just replace it and resync.
If the big ass drive isn’t big enough or gets old I put a second drive in the other slot and sync A->B and get rid of or repurpose the other drive.
If I want greater reliability I can add a second big ass drive in mirror mode.
If I want even greater reliability I can buy a second such setup and put it another parties house.
If I’m worried about the drive getting lost/stolen encryption makes it so nobody at another address can read shit and I can still do incremental syncs.
This of course isn’t free because why the fuck would it be but you can do a ton with just a single machine and drive
www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc4/ www.newegg.com/…/N82E16822185030?Item=N82E1682218…|drive|hard-_-4
$250 Presumably good for 6-10 years or as little as $25 a year 4x as much storage as specified
nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
would you mind fixing that link?
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There is nothing wrong with the link
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Local is the only reliant option.
Patnou@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
what do you mean local? I had two usb sticks crap out on me with a bunch of info I wanted to keep. And want something where I don’t have to worry about it
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Buy an old PC and setup a NAS with RAID redundancy.
Who the fuck uses thumb drives for anything important.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Have you considered something like a solid state drive made by a reputable manufacturer? I have a couple 1tb HDDs that are at least a decade old and still going strong.
portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Cornpop@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
AFAIK cheapest is hetzner storage box (if you’re over 600GB and under 1TB) Only problem you can’t increase a bit, you need to double storage and cost. For more granular or expecting to pass 1TB soon, Backblaze B2 or Wasabi.
kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
google drive I guess?
gastroglizzy@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
For free, no. For cheap, that depends on what “cheap” means to you.