I'm interested to hear whether anyone here uses 'Forever' cloud storage services like https://www.forever.com/
I'm getting a bit sick of paying for Google Drive and would love an offsite backup of important things like photos.
Forever Cloud Storage - Better than Google Drive?
ridgeroad on 15/06/2024 - 13:31
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Never heard of them either, but forever.com must have been a very expensive domain name to buy.
It's manual, but you might be better off buying a couple of 2tb portable HDDs and strategically locating them in safe locations.
After being screwed over by all the big players, this is what I do
Forever Social Storage is currently US$349.99 once-off for merely 25GB. I know it's "forever" but in reality it's only for how long that companies is going to be around.
I am having my photos & videos backed up on B2 cloud storage for US$6/TB/month. The same US$349.99 can keep 25GB of photos for 194years (assuming the price stays the same). I know it's not forever but somehow I think it makes more sense in my life time.
US$349.99 once-off for merely 25GB
Typical American scam.
Forever Cloud Storage
Who?
Better than Google Drive?
Let's see… one I've heard about and one I haven't. Now who would you trust your data with.
Pay for your own local NAS storage
Would you have any tips on this? Planning to use docker to run an instance of NextCloud to move away from OneDrive with my HomeAssistantOS setup, but the whole proxmox/docker/portainer setup seems confusing
I did get some help in this from someone else
He gave me a docker compose file for a LOCAL SMB share NAS.
Then also attached a tailscale version on it (a Linux machine). So that it is accessible outside home too.
NextCloud is not a NAS; you can run TrueNAS as your storage layer. Either baremetal or as a VM with PCIE passthrough in proxmox. Don't dockerise your storage layer, you should have direct control of the disks at the OS level (hence PCIE passthrough if you were to virtualise).
Other apps can mount storage served out by your NAS, either via NFS or SMB or even iSCSI.
One thing that I found.
It says on their page that your photos are safe and secure and where the customer is in control and that you only share your photos with the people that you choose.
Then in the FAQ section it says that as file types become obsolete, the Forever Guarantee Fund pays for the photos to be converted to new digital formats over time as they become available.
These 2 lines seem to contradict each other and I would imagine that they can only convert the files if they have access to them. This may suggest that Forever.com has access to your photos.
unless I am missing something they seem incredibly expensive. You could have multiple offsite backups, One Drive, Google Drive and a few others and have change left.
Never heard of that.
I have LTDs (lifetime deals w/ 1-time payment) of pCloud and Koofr.
I find Koofr to be more professional.
https://www.pcloud.com
https://koofr.eu