1TB Cloud storage needed - options?

slipd · 26 Feb 2018 at 21:09

Hi guys,

I'm after recommendation for a 'bit' of cloud storage and 1tb is what I'm after :cool:

Thinking Google at £79.99 for the year might be my best option as I'm already a Google/Android user but I'm open to alternatives.

Thoughts?

Edit: actually, Drive might be out of the equation anyway; isn't their max. file size 10gb? I think one or two of my machine images are 100gb+ :eek:

slipd · 2 Mar 2018 at 12:14

Sync.com? 2tb for about £70? Seems good, large file sizes. Any users here?

Glanza · 2 Mar 2018 at 12:22

Amazon cloud?

slipd · 2 Mar 2018 at 12:30

File size kills it mate, 48.82gb file size limit

memyselfandi · 2 Mar 2018 at 14:04

Depending on your requirements to actually pull stuff back again maybe Amazon S3, even then aging it onto Glacier for long term archival storage with slower access if you want it back (read the limitations). S3 supports up to 5TB files now IIRC.

slipd · 2 Mar 2018 at 14:08

I only want to backup, at anyone time, around 4x 150gb .image files. Had a couple of external drives fail on me in the last couple of years and I want a more reliable option

memyselfandi · 2 Mar 2018 at 14:25

link For standard S3 I make that $14.40/month for standard S3 for 600GB (in the London region). Push it down to Glacier from there and you are looking at $2.70/month (again note the restrictions of using Glacier compared with S3). Uploading is very simple using the AWS CLI (once you have authentication set up then it's literally a single command to sync a local directory up to a S3 bucket ... I use it to backup bits of one of our labs at work each night).

With any Cloud based storage you are going to need to consider the amount of time it will take to upload and download from them whcih you don't have with local storage backups.

pepp77 · 2 Mar 2018 at 14:28

Office 365 Personal with Premium OneDrive. Gets you office and 1TB cloud storage for £60 per year/£6 per month.

Matthew.M · 2 Mar 2018 at 14:32

I've used Dropbox for years. Unsync any folders you don't want to keep locally. They allow for any filesize and I've never had speed issues.

slipd · 2 Mar 2018 at 14:52

Matthew.M said:
I've used Dropbox for years. Unsync any folders you don't want to keep locally. They allow for any filesize and I've never had speed issues.

Thanks but isn't Dropbox limited to 20gb file sizes?It always used to be set at around that mark anyway.

The speed in which I retrieve won't be any issue, I just need the option of big files...

Actually. I just re-read:

So Dropbox could be an option then?