Storage Solutions Reliable Cloud backup solutions

This is how I maintain my data backup:

  • Copy data to multiple internal hard drives

    Votes: 2 11.1%

  • RAID

    Votes: 1 5.6%

  • Maintain secondary copy on External storage

    Votes: 3 16.7%

  • Cloud as a secondary backup option

    Votes: 12 66.7%
  • Total voters
    18

nRiTeCh

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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)
  • Data Transfer speeds:
  • How long you using the service:
  • Data security:
  • Accessibility: (only via website or ftp clients)
  • Any specific comments about this provider:
 

saurabhpach

New Member
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nRiTeCh said:
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)
  • Data Transfer speeds:
  • How long you using the service:
  • Data security:
  • Accessibility: (only via website or ftp clients)
  • Any specific comments about this provider:
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You could buy WD my cloud drive and use that as your personal cloud.
 

belictony

Member
Disciple
nRiTeCh said:
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)
  • Data Transfer speeds:
  • How long you using the service:
  • Data security:
  • Accessibility: (only via website or ftp clients)
  • Any specific comments about this provider:
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Apple icloud
Rs.2700 for 200GB per year.
Data transfer speed: 20mbps
Using it for about 1 year
Accessible via website
 

silverstar

Member
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nRiTeCh said:
By any chance does this service comes free with any WD external drives?
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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
 

Futureized

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Adept
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.
 

saurabhpach

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nRiTeCh said:
By any chance does this service comes free with any WD external drives?
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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
 

WR4P-TP

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Disciple
Getting a budge NAS(with 2 drives support) would be much better option.
 

MrRobot

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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.
 

deezcnuts

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MrRobot said:
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.
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How are your upload speeds to backblaze? What region are the servers? (I don't think bb has servers in Asia region)
What is the plan cost?
 

MrRobot

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deezcnuts said:
How are your upload speeds to backblaze? What region are the servers? (I don't think bb has servers in Asia region)
What is the plan cost?
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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 also has a calculator to calculate your billing, https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html#calculator
 

rpalpha

Member
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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.
 

vivek.krishnan

If you cant see the green dot, I'm offline :P
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The cheapest would be OneDrive's family plan OR the Business Essentials as long as the total size is limited to 1TB

Otherwise Backblaze B2 would be darn cheap.
 

singenaadam

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As mentioned above, WD & Seagate sell consumer external desktop drives with cloud option.

Backblaze has tons of cred. Based on their direct experience, they publish interesting HDD reliability ratings every year.

Cheapest one would be a Pi-based NAS sitting in your home or someone else's. Would require some sweat, though.