Creating this thread to understand and share among us who is using what Cloud backup solutions to store their utmost important or private data safely without worrying about hard drive failures.
Kindly share the same in below format which will help everyone make a decision if they feel opting to one of the solutions:
Cloud provider name:
Is it free or paid service:
Space Pricing/cost plan: (per GB/TB Yearly cost)
Backup: (if the cloud offers any extra backup solution free incl. in the plan cost)
There are diskless variants available ig but WD My Cloud does come with WD drives (not sure about the variant and whether its possible to shuck or not). Quick google search brought up this product page for one of the variants. It shows capacity b/w 2-16TB
I would instead suggest purchasing a portable disk and shucking it EDIT: if you have the expertise ofc. Its much cheaper this way usually
Onedrive
Paid
Around 600 Rs for 1 TB for a year
No
Upto 2.5 Mbps upload, upto 2 MBPs download
2 years
Soo far good (I do share lots of family/friends videos with many people, they are able to stream view those photos without issues, just make sure to change default permissions from view + edit to view only. )
Website/Mobile App/Windows Software/
Best and Cheapest soo far.
Yes it does. It has both options (with and without disk). It accepts user replaceable PC hard disks. You can change the hard disks with one click. It takes two hard disks ata time of capacity up to 8tb
If you just need to store data with a few downloads, backblaze comes out quite cheap. I had been storing my CCTV camera footage from Synology to Backblaze.
Have been using it to just store data, my bucket had reached around 100gb and it costed me somewhere around 3-6$ a month, its hosted on a US located server. I had automatic uploads setup from my synology NAS in the night time, I never really had any issues of slow uploads.
Backblaze B2 is pretty cheap. Costs about 5 dollars for 1TB and you can avoid the download cost by using the cloudflare trick.
I have been using it for 2-3 Years now and it has been the most reliable one so far.
