r/DataHoarder • u/f2msnm • 3d ago

Question/Advice Cloud storage

What would be the best , most affordable temporary cloud storage option? My old laptop is dying on me (disk error) and I need to back it up just long enough to be able to afford an external drive with some decent storage on it. I’m big on privacy, I know I may need to pay a little because all the free options I’ve found have a small limit of data and I would rather not have all my data so scattered , I’d rather be able to keep it all in one (safe) place. Money is really tight right now so I’d really love suggestions if anyone has any

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u/1234youarein 3d ago

Proton Drive or pCloud with encryption

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u/meauwschwitz 50-100TB 3d ago

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/personal

Unlimited backup size for $9/mo?

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u/infinity-waster 3d ago

I remember this being ~4$/month a while back lol

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u/AdvancedDrink8920 1d ago

I have heard horror stories of restoring the backups so just be careful. May want to go b2

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u/meauwschwitz 50-100TB 1d ago

Yeah, I use b2 myself for work and home, but their personal computer backup has gotta be easier for a one time thing, I would think.

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u/jeo123911 3d ago

I saw someone mention spacebyte.in here and I started using it.

It's complicated to subscribe since they seem to be only intended for India and show prices in that currency, but it works fine in Europe after I managed to get a payment sent through razorpay.

Uploading and downloading is only through a web browser, no command line tools supported. But you can't beat the price, though. After conversion it's $3 per month for 2TB of storage.

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u/dr100 3d ago

You don't say how much space you need but keybase has 250GB free.

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u/MaxPrints 3d ago

I'm sorry, did you say… 250gb?
ヽ(°〇°)ﾉ

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u/dr100 3d ago

Yes. 

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u/f2msnm 3d ago

I would prefer at least 1 TB since I have some other things elsewhere I’d want to store temporarily if I’m paying a subscription anyway , but this sounds like a great free option!

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u/s_i_m_s 3d ago

Idrive has a 10TB for $5 a year (not monthly, a year) for the first year promo.
Overage usage is $250/TB though (billed by the GB iirc) so be sure you can stay under.
I've never seen a laptop with much storage though so that's probably plenty.

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u/f2msnm 3d ago

Do you know if you can just cancel it before another year renewal if I got everything moved over by the time it ends?

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u/s_i_m_s 3d ago

Yes, I actually recommend turning off auto renewal in your use case. Notably they won't let you turn it off right after sign up you have to wait a few days before it shows up as an option.

Also notably if you disable auto renewal you won't get any warning once the 1 year is up, you'll just get an email that everything has been deleted once it runs out.

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u/f2msnm 3d ago

Thank you for letting me know!

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/f2msnm 1d ago

I will look into this, thank you. See the problem is the HDD is suffering from 100% disk error I have troubleshot to hell , still haven’t been able to fix and the thing runs so slow I’m gonna be hard pressed to get this stuff off it without freezing on me. I’ll see what I can do to make it work, though

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u/DTLow 3d ago

As an Apple user, my go-to cloud storage is Apple iCloud

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u/f2msnm 3d ago

It’s for windows