Possibly within the next 38 months or so will the cost of backing up on Deep Archive (or other competing alternatives from Google, Microsoft or some other reliable cloud storage provider) become cheaper than cost of 5-10 years of self-hosted 2x HDD at that time. Anyone have experience with Google's $1.2/TB/month alternative? is it any better in terms of potential cost to retreive the data?Īlso, my thinking of the cost vs buying my own bunch of external hard drives, is that: 8TB x2 = $300 8TB on Deep Archive = $8/month, I got about 38 months, 3+ years of cloud storage before the Cloud storage becomes more expensive than hosting the data myself.
To just flip a bunch of folders with data to that type of long term cloud backup storage. I wouldn't mind paying the $1/TB/month to Google if they had that in there. I wish Google would add some kind of their Deep Archive alternative right into my Google Drive account. Also I see in Googling on Reddit that it might eventually be cheapest to retrieve data by an Amazon Snowball if needed. Like who knows, it might cost $0.1/TB/month 5-10 years from now. My thinking is that I guess (I hope) that Amazon will continue to lower the retrieval costs in the future, so if I do need to retreive Terrabytes of data from it 5-10 years from now, hopefully it'll be cheap then, and until then also Amazon might lower the monthly TB storage price further. One thing that confuses me about the Deep Archive service, is the eventual retrieval cost, I don't know if it's $90 per TB or $2.5 per TB, when I Google it it seems to be all over the place.
Microsoft also ended their Unlimited storage system, right? I don't feel like I might do it on the Backblaze thing as it needs me to constantly have those 30TB connected and their upload speed wouldn't support that would it. Is there nothing better yet than the $1/TB/month from Amazon S3 Deep Archive?Īll those people promoting "Unlimited Google Drive" they're fakes, right? I already had to re-upload everything when Amazon Drive ended their Unlimited service a year and a half or so ago. And because I may lose one or both HDD somehow. Especially if I don't carefully check the data regularly. Because I don't know if I can trust if the Seagate Shingled Magnetic Recording (which I understand may be the type) used in those cheap Seagate (and WD?) external Hard Drives are still readable, won't corrupt the data somehow within 5-10 years from now. I like to backup my 30TB, was doing it on a bunch of those $149 Seagate 8TB external hard drives until now, two copies and one if possible stored remotely, but now looking at leaving one copy on the cloud.
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