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What's the cheapest online storage that you know of? (feddit.de)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by u202307011927@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] secret_ninja@feddit.nl 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

This is what I do. Truenas scale and backup to ext hard drive and B2

[–] NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 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.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 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.