Google cloud is AUD 43 for 200 GB per year. 200GB would work as well. Is that the best deal you can get?
What about the Turkey or India VPNs.
What Is Cheapest Cloud Based Storage Solution - Ideally 100GB or 200GB
yjun355 on 11/03/2023 - 16:36
Last edited 11/03/2023 - 16:37
Last edited 11/03/2023 - 16:37
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Yeah its mainly to backup like
50 GB for website backup. Hopefully never have to access them.
Personal photos and videos. Again as backup. Don't really have to access.This is purely for backup that i don't expect to access as i have local drives, etc. However, drives die at some stage. Good to know there is master backup copy at one location.
How does Backblaze work? Its free for unlimited backup and they charge if you access them?
B2 is basically reselling AWS S3 storage.. a tad cheaper rate than the aussie AWS rates.
So, pricing is based on how much you store (beyond the free 10GB) and your downloads.
I personally use Duplicati which supports a lot of the cloud providers. I have it only keeping a couple of historical copies of my files, so I've stayed under the 10GB limit so far. With your 50 GB, you'd need to use their calculator to estimate how many full and/or incremental backups you want to keep.
Just curious for under 10GB, you wouldn't just use Google Drive that has free 15GB?
@yjun355: I actually use Office365/OneDrive as my main cloud storage.
Backblaze and AWS are my backup backups… I'll eventually start pushing a lot of my long term archives into the deep archive tier storage, so it'll grow well beyond the 10GB that I have now.
B2 isn't reselling AWS. Backblaze manages all of the infrastructure for B2.
For home use B2 is way better. Wouldn't even consider AWS.
Edit: AWS may make sense for your use case. Assuming you plan to never touch it.
B2 isn't reselling AWS. Backblaze manages all of the infrastructure for B2.
Haha… yeah, not sure what I was thinking. I was just reading the reports on their HD/SSD reliability stats the other day.
Edit: AWS may make sense for your use case. Assuming you plan to never touch it.
I actually have copies of my backups with both AWS and Backblaze at the moment. (can't have too many offisite backups.☺️) I use S3 in the AWS aussie region and Backblaze US
iDrive pricing looks interesting… I'll need to take a closer look.
@bobbieb: I used to use iDrive but now use duplicati to B2 like you. I'm not entirely sure why, but something made me not trust iDrive, especially their private encryption key. I decided I wanted something that I controlled and was encrypted client side.
I've been looking at Backblaze and thought they charged for storage - the B2 website says it charges $0.005/GB/month - have you got a way to do backups without them charging you for it past the 10gb free trial?
$0.005/GB/Month
Data stored with Backblaze is calculated hourly, with no minimum retention requirement, and billed monthly. The first 10 GB of storage is free.Yep… beyond 10GB of files, you get charged $US0.005 per additional GB.
I'm only backing up the important stuff, so I've stayed below the limit so far. As I add more, I'd be looking at about $US60 year for 1TB, so long as I don't need to restore anything, then the download charges bite.
Ah, that makes sense - I thought you managed to get more than 10gb for free. Would have been nice! Also, another option once you go past the 10gb mark is Backblaze personal - it's $70USD per year, so only $10USD more, but has unlimited storage, and as far as I can remember, no extra download costs etc. I guess depending on how much you download things, it might end up being cheaper for the unlimited storage option?
@Opaquer: I personally limited myself to cloud services that let me use traditional backup software like Duplicati.
Additionally, I wanna be in control of how many full & incremental backups I keep, whereas with Backblaze Personal, they're managing your individual files (rather than backup sets) and only keep old copies for 30 days unless you subscribe to the upgrade.
Their pricing is complicated. Can't work out how much you expect to spend on 100GB
I don't know if it's the cheapest, but I recently found out about iDrive. I don't know if it's the cheapest out there, but I've been looking at their personal plan (probably 5TB-10TB). For me it ticks more boxes than anything else - multiple devices without paying extra per device, cloud storage, can get it for iOS/Android and back up photos from there directly, an extra cloud sync folder that's the same size as your normal account size, and a few other features. They also have a mini plan that lets you do 100gb for $2.95USD per year (roughly $4.60AUD per year) or a 500gb plan that's $9.95USD per year (roughly $15.20AUD per year).
Again, not sure if it's the cheapest out there, but it also depends on what features you want that might help narrowing it all down
Wow this looks pretty good.
I think their 100GB for USD$3 per year is good. Once that's full it goes to USD$20GB for 500GB. That would definately be enough for important things
Yup, though the 500gb should be $9.95USD/year, not $20, so even better :)
You can also get a free trial for 10gb and see how it works - it lets you play with the desktop/mobile apps and see if it's something you like, which I definitely recommend taking advantage of to be sure it's good for you :)
Thanks a lot. This looks good.
Its a shame Google Drive don't have similar pricing for 100GB.
I paid a few bucks for their yearly plan, but the transfer speed was so terrible I gave up.
Support wasn't willing to refund, so thankfully it was cheap.
Huh - out of curiosity when was that? I've signed up for the trial the other day and was easily getting 3mbps - not huge, but I don't have great internet to begin with, and I have a VPN, so 3mbps was more than enough. The only downside to having our aussie internet is having a full 14mbps upload! Great times! /s
Was around a year ago. I can't remember exactly how slow it was, but it was going to take a crazy amount of time to upload. Went back to Backblaze, which is very quick.
What Is Cheapest Cloud Based Storage Solution
Buy your own like WD my cloud, or other brands like segate etc. I have been using WD cloud Ultra Ex 2, (2 x 4TB) been going great for me,
I think I paid like $100 ish for this too
The data uploading to drive is little slow IMO even on same wifi, Wire connection to the hard-disk directly is much much faster
Interesting, whats the catch here? Seems too good to be true.
Chinese owned.
Some people have reported that they limit download speeds to try to force you pay up for a premium plan.
IMO wouldn't be terrible to encrypt your files and use this is a second backup.
I tried terabox last year. It wasn't great. Limitation on file sizes and moving files wasn't good experience.
I would prefer to go with Idrive at this stage and not go back to terabox.
I have used Backblaze b2 for a few years now as my offsite backup of last resort for all my photos and family videos.
I've only ever accessed it to check that it works and it did.
I currently have 277 GB on there and last month that cost me AUD 2.18 (it's billed in USD).
I'm on MAC OS and use an app called Cyberduck to manually manage the uploads (not automated or incremental, I just upload my new stuff each month.)Check out duplicati. Set it up once and it will run automatically in the background for you, so you don't need to worry about Cyberduck
Thanks. Will do.
thanks a lot. this is amazing. I'll actually do this one
How do you plan/need to access your files?
I use Backblaze B2. The first 10 GB of storage is free, and I'm mainly using for backups, so I'm yet to spend a cent.