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ashish

ashish

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Asking this on behalf of a photographer friend.
He does freelancing and by now he has around some 6-8 tbs of data.
He does maintains all the data across many hard drives but recently one of his drives failed and he lost 2tb of client data.

Now parallely he is looking for cloud storage options and hence the thread.
He wishes to offload couple of ttbs of data and use those drives to accommodate more projects.

So, which popular and trusted cloud services can offer 2 or 4tb in a single plan at least yearly or a lifetime subscription and more to that the provider shouldn't get shutdown abruptly.
 
iDrive has terrible reviews. You could look at Backblaze Personal Backup, it offers unlimited backup AS LONG AS the drives are connected to your PC. (I think it does weekly checks to see if the data is still there)
 
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Well, it may be a bit shady but people are selling school licences of Gsuite which comes with 200 TB pool storage. If you can find a trusted provider, it would be worth it.
 
adnanhussainturki said:
Well, it may be a bit shady but people are selling school licences of Gsuite which comes with 200 TB pool storage. If you can find a trusted provider, it would be worth it.
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Not sure how one can think those school licenses are secure. It is easily visible to the admin as @kuduku mentioned above. I think most of these rogue admins allow some of the accounts based on the content they have access to as otherwise those exploiting it a lot are easily banned.
 
ashish said:
He does maintains all the data across many hard drives but recently one of his drives failed and he lost 2tb of client data.
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i think s/he is overthinking it and increasing own complexity and recurring expenses.
Standard business term in this field is 6month to 12 month, max data retention. your friend can keep few selective data for his own long-term portfolio. rest can be deleted aft 12 months.
Once project completed its ideal to transfer the data to client cloud storage like google drive or just buy a 128gb Sd card and hand over and call it a day.

Now coming back to the data storage, since its his/her bread and butter, s/he could invest in on-premises storage infra for once. like take an old computer, install media vault and put 2 30tb HDD on RAID 0.
or buy a 2-bay NAS .
 
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On the more "technical" side, Backblaze B2

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage

Connect it with Cloudflare, and data retrieval becomes almost free. Probably the most technical solution, but also one of the cheapest.

The other option is to use a NAS and also have a backup in AWS S3 Deep Glacier. Remember though, while it's cheap for storing, pulling data out is really expensive. I have around 1TB in Deep Glacier right now, and I pay around ₹100 INR per month iirc. It's the kind of data we can't afford to lose. I've a couple more services on AWS, so that's just an estimate off the top of my head.

Just be sure not to select Mumbai for storage, as it's almost double the price of most other regions.
 
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i think s/he is overthinking it and increasing own complexity and recurring expenses.
Standard business term in this field is 6month to 12 month, max data retention. your friend can keep few selective data for his own long-term portfolio. rest can be deleted aft 12 months.
Once project completed its ideal to transfer the data to client cloud storage like google drive or just buy a 128gb Sd card and hand over and call it a day.

Now coming back to the data storage, since its his/her bread and butter, s/he could invest in on-premises storage infra for once. like take an old computer, install media vault and put 2 30tb HDD on RAID 0.
or buy a 2-bay NAS .
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He keeps for his portfolios which needs to be always kept updated with new stuff. And he himself has a large data of his family as that's how and when he learnt about photography during wedding shoots etc. so these cannot be deleted and hence the hunt for the best cloud backup solution.

He isn't comfortable with NAS as he isn't really that technical and again raid failures, data recovery and hence he is looking for an alternate cloud solution.
 
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