Hello All
I am looking to get an online storage as I am running out a space from default google drive and also thinking to move on all my personal storage to cloud e.g. One Drive, Google One, Dropbox . All of them are pretty much at least $10/month.
Is there any bargain for this. I have checked price using the VPN but it ends up at same price as AUD.
$10/ Month doesn't sound much but if add Netflix / Youtube Premium / Amazon Prime then it all comes like min $40/month.
And if you want Google to know more about you then use Google Opinion Rewards for even more credit!. I get about $70-$100 per year for doing 5 second surveys. Most often it's asking if I've been to Target (a day after I was nearby) or Kmart etc. etc.
Obviously don't lie when saying where you've been as they throw in fake locations to weed out people.
I figure Google knows pretty much everything about you already so no point in lying.
Yep. I have location history on intentionally for work so I get plenty of them. Every day it's asking me if I've been to Target. It would seem there's something there Google eagerly wants me to see.
I've only earned $20 since last September being honest. The guy who put me onto it reckons he always gives rubbish answers, and earns enough to pay for his google storage.
I'm not sure whether the lesson is honesty doesn't pay, or YMMV.
I was giving bogus answers and they stopped sending me surveys. You can contact them and get your profile reset or something which allows you to get surveys again.
I reckon you could give bogus answers, as long as they are consistently bogus. They regularly ask you the same questions (e.g. Are you a parent, ages of children, relationship status, home ownership status, education level etc) if your kids go from highschool to toddlers, they might tweak to it. This may be where the difference with the other guy comes from.
also if you already subscribe to YouTube Premium with an overseas gmail, you can use the same to get Google One storage for much cheaper than it is available here.
Ooooo thanks for the tip
Handy to know, seeing as how I live in India, according to Google. ;)
~$23AUD a year for 100GB for those interested.
You can get Onedrive with an Office 365 subscription. The Family subscription lets you have up to 6 accounts each with 1TB of Onedrive storage, and 12/15 month subscriptions are often on sale at Bing Lee or others for the equivalent of under $9 per month.
e.g.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/608738
and also if your employer has Home Use Program: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/575563
^This is by far the cheapest option if you can share across family members.
Also, is anyone in your family a student or teacher?
IE If they have Office, then they have access to all the extra storage.
Beware of the fact that if they no longer affiliated with the school , the account will be terminated and potentially you loose your data. School's IT admin also have access to see your data.
Thanks for the advice. Admittedly, I have my own account, whilst my partner is a Teacher.
So don't use all those streaming services at once if you can't afford it.
Not sure what you're crying poor for.
Not sure why your negged… its only common sense.
Who's crying poor? OP wants online storage and doesn't want to pay subscriptions. I'm in exactly the same boat.
Well OP clearly says it's only 10 bucks then cites other luxury (as in they're definitely not essential to retain any sort of data) subscriptions that don't really add up to that much but can be avoided easily.
I think the OPs point was it might seem like "it's only $10", but add them all up, then multiple by how many months you have left, it's a lot of money.
I'm really surprised to be having this conversation here. I thought this would be one place where I'd find like-minded subscription-haters.
I'm always having this conversation with my daughter and younger brother, so long as netflix and high data phone plans and lattes are their priority, they'll be paying off their house until they retire.
$10 off the mortgage is far more valuable than netflix imo, multiple that by every subscription by every month and it's the difference between living in debt vs financial freedom for many.
I'm stuck with Dropbox because of 1Password but everytime I want to add a device it's $18 for one month where I can add unlimited devices. Google credit seems to be the cheapest option with the Rewards crediti (or buying when GCs on sale).
I think the iTunes GCs aren't going to be on sale much going forward given Apple Gift Cards nowadays so would rather preserve my iTunes credit.
Why does 1password make you stay with Dropbox?
Because I don't pay for the 1Password subscription, Dropbox is the only cloud provider which they support which is cross platform. Wish they supported OneDrive :(
:( That sucks. I'd suggest looking at an alternative ;)
@jace88: Fair enough.
If you do ever get sick of it and feel like changing, I'd recommend bitwarden. Very easy to import stuff from other password managers and will cost you $0 for as many devices as you like.
I realise it's not always as easy as that though, but just trying to help out if I can 🙂
@moar bargains: I've been very tempted before! I guess it's a bit of a sunk cost fallacy as I feel like I've bought the app multiple times already (2 or 3 diff versions on Windows, Mac OS X, unlock full features on Android, and unlock full features on iPhone/iPad/Apple Watch)…
… one day though I'm sure they'll do enough to annoy me to want to migrate to another platform which doesn't force me to pay $18 each time I buy a new device.
EDIT: Relooked at Bitwarden again and I remember the thing which concerned me wasn't the cost of the subscription (since you essentially need the USD$10/year at a minimum for OTP generator) but just it didn't seem to have an easy way to store the vault on another cloud provider eg OneDrive. I appreciate there's a self-hosting feature but setting up a Docker container on my NAS/etc seems like overkill in complexity.
edit: already mentioned above
I found no mention of edit above. How much do they charge per month?
Like Photobucket etc clampin down, Im wondering how long until Google starts charging for Gmail too…. it would make them zillions
Gmail Users 1.5 billion (October 2019)
Gmail is supported by ads. They are already making zillions.
They dont need it but it would be good business …
and yuou think that'll stop em? They have such a captive audience now….
1 pen pusher to suggest it and …..
edit: There are over 1.8 billion active Gmail users in 2020. That's one Gmail user for every five people around the globe.
Or in my case 5 Gmail accounts for 1 person 🙂
@MS Paint: Im only a novice, I only have 4 :'(
but this is interesting
Awesome Gmail Statistics
Gmail remains the most popular email platform with over 1.8 billion users worldwide.
Gmail has 18% of the email client market share in May 2021.
Gmail accounts for 27% of all email opens.
75% of all Gmail users access their email on mobile devices.
61% of 18-29-year-olds use Gmail.
An average Gmail account is worth around $3,588.85.
306.4 billion emails are sent and received daily in 2020.
@MS Paint: I didnt know I had something wirth $3588.85…. Im rich ::D
Backtrack to May 2015, Gmail had just 900 million users.
This figure rose to 1 billion in February 2016.
Fast forward to October 2018, and Gmail already had 1.5 billion users.
They’re now 1.8 billion users.
This earned Gmail the title of the email service with the highest number of users worldwide
Setup your own email server if you want more space…
This is a good suggestion until you realise the maintenance cost (in time) of maintaining your own server is high.
Businesses outsource this stuff for a reason. It's cheaper once you factor all the hidden costs.
I've never setup my own email server so i have no idea what the time maintenance cost is like. Have you?
I recently switched to OD - with the ability to use a custom domain plus the 1tb storage, it was cheaper than using separate services. I think the HUP program is about ~$67 per year.
I’ve been looking into Backblaze cloud storage. Seems very cost effective.
+1 for Backblaze B2. I use B2 for my home computer backup. It costs me ~USD$1.80 a month for ~300Gb.
Wha do you use for the client?
Duplicati. It ticked all my boxes, and then some.
Free, open source, cross platform, encrypted + incremental + de-duplicated backups, back up to NAS/network drive + numerous cloud platforms. You could even set it up to backup different things to different clouds. The nice extras were things like ability to run on a headless machine (e.g. NAS) as you can set up remote access to the (browser-based) interface.
@Lilydale: I have a small 2-bay Synology NAS and I just use that. I backup from my laptop to the NAS and then also backup from my laptop to B2. I could setup the backup to B2 from the NAS, but I can't remember why I haven't. Possibly because then I need to run (and keep an eye on) Duplicati in two locations rather than just one? There was a reasonable reason at the time…
I'm in the process of setting up backups from phones to the NAS, to replace Google photos backup.
I was previously using iDrive (not the same as iCloud, and nothing to do with B2) because it had an introductory offer of something like USD$5.95 total for 2Tb for 1 year, and it ticked all my boxes as well, but something about it just made me not trust it. Nothing they did specifically, just something didn't smell right. I decided being master of my own encryption and storage was better. But then I'm still using Google drive, so at best I'm inconsistently concerned 😅
Open up another Google account and use that cloud storage a well.
One drive is a Microsoft thing and isn’t cross platform.
Google makes money off selling personal information
Dropbox is t the cheapest and has its faults but is less bad than the other two.
My OneDrive syncs nicely on my Linux machine. It's a third party solution but has worked reliably for many years now.
Mac, Windows, iOS and Android are all first party supported.
Google Drive is also not officially supported on Linux, ergo it is no more "cross-platform" than OneDrive.
To make matters worse, my past experience with the third party Linux solutions were unreliable, although that may have changed in recent years.
Very true. Google Drive linux integration is painful especially if it's done on a SSL machine without a desktop GUI.
Dropbox only offers 2GB free.
Onedrive offers 5GB, and very likely you will get more with Office.
I actually find Dropbox the most restrictive given the limits on number of devices on free plan and the frequent notifications asking me to upgrade.
So far OneDrive has been working reasonably well across the platforms including APIs on my NAS, so I'm most comfortable with it.
If you have a edu email, you can sign up for a Microsoft education licence for free and get a large storage account.
edu emails are available for around $10 if you don't have one, we are all still learning things.
Have a look at Treasure Cloud. They have a free plan you can self-invite to with throwaway emails up to 800GB. It takes time but if you are looking for the best free option, it might be the best way to go.
Mega and mediafile have cloud options I think.
Dropbox can be paid for via Google Play; you can try get discounted Google Play gift cards or bonus points where for example you get 1000 points if you buy a $50 one from Coles or Woolies.