I’m running my media server with a 36tb raid5 array with 3 disks, so I do have some resilience to drives failing. But currently can only afford to loose a single drive at a time, which got me thinking about backups. Normally I’d just do a backup to my NAS, but that quickly gets ridiculous for me with the size of my library, which is significantly larger than my NAS storage of only a few tb. And buying cloud storage is much too expensive for my liking with these amounts of storage.
Do you backup only the most valuable parts of your library?
Backblaze. $10 a month for infinite storage
Wait what!? I can backup my entire 36tb library for $10/month!?
I’d have to double check but I believe that only works on windows and I know for sure you can’t use it for network shares. I have it on my windows desktop but wasn’t able to backup my media server with it.
Doesn’t work for network shares as far as I can tell. At least not without some funky magic
I mean… do the math and you can figure out by yourself that it’s a fair price but in no way some sort of very convebient situation for the users. A 20tb hard drive goes for about 450€ and then you can consider the advantages that they have buying hdd at scale.
Yeah
Aaand if they allow downloading select files, it’s most probably not encrypted either.
+1 , cheap and easy first backup solution.
Your ISP with a 1.2TB data cap: “lol.”
ISPs with a data cap? Lmao, nope.
An US thingy.
Hey, at least all of us peeps in the US can upgrade our >$100 capped plans to unlimited for the low-low price of $30-50/month (i.e. what some of our friends overseas pay for their whole-ass unlimited crazyfast internet plan).
At a lot of places that’s not a question of choice.