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4TB-8TB of cheap storage for media I don't care about
Howdy all,
I'm looking for a cheap way to store media that I wouldn't be upset with losing. My only requirements are that the capacity is at least 4TB and that it is on a 1Gbps port.
Does anyone know of a service, VPS provider, or dedi provider that could do this for less than $40/m?
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I use rm(1) for this purpose. If there is media I own that I don't care about, I use the rm(1) utility which stores it in an appropriate place for me. Very space-efficient, and best of all, free.
omg you troll lol
Amazon cloud drive would likely be the cheapest
soyoustart
Backblaze b2?
Or hetzner dedicated server focused for storage
https://billing.dacentec.com/hostbill/index.php?/cart/dedicated-servers/ maybe? I see 2x2 TB for $35. If you want 8 TB, $40 is a little low.
ask mnx.io, Liteserver, time4vps, I'm sure they're under your budget atleast for 4 TB
@lmnotran pmed you.
40 EUR for 8TB: https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-st8
Probably the best option around. The setup fee sucks, though.
Hetzner Auction - €26 for a i7 2600/i7 3770 with 6TB storage and 1GBps port. Used them for 18 months now, no issues at all.
if you only need space and not a full vps: https://www.hetzner.de/ot/hosting/storagebox/bx50
edit: if you really only want to do cold storage and not access those files except an rare incident, you probably could go for even an cheaper storage box with hetzner, as those come with snapshot features...
so lets say you take bx40 which has 2 TB of space but 8 snapshots, you could easily put 2 TB up to it, make a snapshot, put another 2 TB up, make a snapshot ... and so on. 8 snapshots at 2 TB might result in 16 TB storable data, which may be retrieved if needed the other way round by restoring on of those snapshots.
work involved but quite cheap I'd say ^^
I thought for a moment about Glacier...but...8192 GB * .007/GB/mo = $57/mo, plus hellacious network costs if you ever want to get it back. Ugh.
@myhken: Interesting. Are you located in the US? If so, what is the average latency to your server(s)?
Very interesting
Although :P Why would you keep 4 TB of media if you don't care about it, really? I mean you could use an external hard drive with no monthly fees and be done with it :P
haha, psssst ;-)
probably depends on how those files are to be used in case ever needed. if those are rather large files of multiple GB which had to be uploaded in case of emergency from a thin home line a cheap online solution maybe preferrable. otherwise I'd totally agree on using a plain external drive at home...
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4TB external drive is $120 setup fee and no monthly cost. If you don't care losing that copy, I'd say that's way enough.
I'm located in Norway, so cant help you there.
Hetzner's connection to the USA is not the best. I would not want to move TBs of data with them.
they allow this?
LOL
Shit. That's actually a really good deal.
Yes, with good CPU and ram, and with unlimited bandwidth
(euro! = usd)
I think there is nothing against any terms or conditions included by the offer or contract.
probably it is not an intended way of use but I don't see why it should make any difference. they sell an amount space including multiple snapshots of that space, so for sure you should be able to make use of it as you like.
even if they calculated including differential and/or deduplicating techniques and most people only making use of a small percentage of that box, they probably won't care about some big and completely different snapshots. and this is not a thing the customer has to worry about after all I'd say ;-)
8TB of useless stuff?? That's quite a bit of junk
It definitely is
To everyone suggesting an external drive, local storage isn't the issue. I already have a copy all the data locally. The issue is that my network upload speeds are atrocious and the files need to be remotely accessible.
That is an important thing.
What kind of files?
P0RN VOL1-50
Maybe https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/87944/new-synology-diskstation-ds115j-2tb-100mbits-14-99-month#latest