I am trying to get away from Google and am looking for a decent cloud service that’s integrated well into Linux, either by itself or by using rclone.

I tried Proton drive, but it is laggy and overall not very good.

I just need storage, nothing fancy. Self hosting is not an option tough, at this time.

EDIT: I don’t want to write the same answer 15 times, so I’ll just put this here: Thanks a lot for the recommendations to all of you! I’ve got some reading up to do now :-)

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    Man $500 a month for 50TB.

    For less than that, I could buy 5x10TB hard drives every two months. Sure there’s value in the hosting and internet, but why is it so damned expensive compared to the price of hosting it?

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Those cheaper drives scare me.

        What grinds my gears is you can rent enough compute to handle this for $30 a month. That covers redundant internet, staff, fire suppression, generators, air conditioning.

        I want to couple that with a chassis full of sata. Obviously more power and heat but not 16 times that.

        You can get 2u of colocation for about a hundred bucks per month. I’ve been pondering for a few years building out a 4u chassis and doing a friends and fam storage co-op. You could do a 208tb (real 189) z2 with two parity drives for around $4,500 bucks plus 100-130 a month.

        The current pricing is all based on SAS. Even the companies that aren’t using SAS are still charging like it is.

    • slackness@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 months ago

      You’re paying for redundancies in different regions, migrations, backups, upgrades, maintenance, generally not having to worry about losing your data. The storage costs nothing.