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I'm currently using Google drive for cloud backups and file storage, It works well but it's getting expensive. Are there any others out there people can recommend.

I'm not looking for a pure backup solution (Like BackBlaze), I want file storage that I can access, like Google Drive, Drop box etc etc,. but want unto 5TB of storage or unlimited if possible.
 
How is unlimited storage for under a tenner* expensive? If you’re paying Google more than that, you’re doing it wrong.

*Slightly more for new users who haven’t been doing this for several years already.
 
Do you use Office? You could get Office 365 which gives you 1 TB of OneDrive storage as part of the subscription, it's £79.99 a year.
 
ChrisD. said:
Do you use Office? You could get Office 365 which gives you 1 TB of OneDrive storage as part of the subscription, it's £79.99 a year.
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You can get the family pack for around £40-£50 for a year and that gives you 6 accounts with 1TB each. I've got multiple accounts setup on my Synology which allows me to automate uploads to more than one account.

About the cheapest way to get 6TB but a bit of a faff.
 

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Avalon said:
How is unlimited storage for under a tenner* expensive? If you’re paying Google more than that, you’re doing it wrong.

*Slightly more for new users who haven’t been doing this for several years already.
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Can new customers can get anywhere near that "tenner" pricing?
As from what i've read, as a new customer you need 5-seats minimum to qualify for Google Workspace Enterprise and/or Unlimited storage*, and that's between $20-$30 ($20 seems to be either for existing customers or $20/30 is the difference between Enterprise and Enterprise Plus packages) per seat or $100/150 (£82/123) per month.

*Without being a customer already, information seems to be all over the show. But, some say you need purchase 5, or more, accounts to qualify for Enterprise, others say Enterprise accounts get 5TB as standard and unlimited storage is only "unlocked" when you purchase 5, or more, accounts.
 
visibleman said:
Can new customers can get anywhere near that "tenner" pricing?
As from what i've read, as a new customer you need 5-seats minimum to qualify for Google Workspace Enterprise and/or Unlimited storage*, and that's between $20-$30 ($20 seems to be either for existing customers or $20/30 is the difference between Enterprise and Enterprise Plus packages) per seat or $100/150 (£82/123) per month.

*Without being a customer already, information seems to be all over the show. But, some say you need purchase 5, or more, accounts to qualify for Enterprise, others say Enterprise accounts get 5TB as standard and unlimited storage is only "unlocked" when you purchase 5, or more, accounts.
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Yes. Enterprise doesn't actually enforce/need 5 users, you need one and a domain, you use team drives, not the main GDrive which has a limit, the only applicable team drive limit is 400,000 files/directories, but you can map multiple TD's. Have a look at sudobox or saltbox for current projects and guides to doing this and a lot more, some of us have been running this way since 2017.
 
SoundsGood said:
Onedrive for business plan 2, £7.50/month, unlimited storage
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Sort of. There's a caveat shown on the product page, note the * next to the storage limit for plan 2.

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* Unlimited individual cloud storage for qualifying plans for subscriptions of five or more users, otherwise 1 TB/user. Microsoft will initially provide 1 TB/user of OneDrive for Business storage, which admins can increase to 5 TB/user. Request additional storage by contacting Microsoft support. Storage up to 25 TB/user is provisioned in OneDrive for Business. Beyond 25 TB, storage is provisioned as 25 TB SharePoint team sites to individual users.
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So for a single licensed user it's a hard limit of 5Tb.
 
Si. said:
I'm currently using Google drive for cloud backups and file storage, It works well but it's getting expensive. Are there any others out there people can recommend.

I'm not looking for a pure backup solution (Like BackBlaze), I want file storage that I can access, like Google Drive, Drop box etc etc,. but want unto 5TB of storage or unlimited if possible.
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What makes up your 5tb? If it’s mostly pictures splitting those off into Amazon Prime might be a good solution. Sadly the days of cheap
Unlimited cloud storage are long gone.
 
a1ex2001 said:
What makes up your 5tb? If it’s mostly pictures splitting those off into Amazon Prime might be a good solution. Sadly the days of cheap
Unlimited cloud storage are long gone.
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While I agree it's more expensive than it used to be, the cost to run a local storage server in power terms is also significantly higher than it used to be and that's ignoring the up-front purchase price. £23/m for a new user still isn't bad value when you can literally store PB's and have versioning/backup included.
 
Avalon said:
While I agree it's more expensive than it used to be, the cost to run a local storage server in power terms is also significantly higher than it used to be and that's ignoring the up-front purchase price. £23/m for a new user still isn't bad value when you can literally store PB's and have versioning/backup included.
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I agree cloud storage is still a great product and not ridiculously expensive and actually we should all be careful how much we are storing as it fast reaches a critical mass where you cannot manage it.
 
ChrisD. said:
It’s getting to the point where I may end up shifting to Google.
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*cough* 5 years late *cough* :D

In all honesty, for some types of large/static data it's a game changer, for other things Hell will be proven to exist and offer ice skating before i'll move to the cloud, this is why a hybrid approach using mix of local flash/mechanical, network flash/mechanical and cloud is a great option if you can be bothered.
 
Minstadave said:
You can get the family pack for around £40-£50 for a year and that gives you 6 accounts with 1TB each. I've got multiple accounts setup on my Synology which allows me to automate uploads to more than one account.

About the cheapest way to get 6TB but a bit of a faff.
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Genius!

I'm on one drive solo and get the 1TB. Next time I could do with more. Great tip
 
Bumping this thread.. I'm again looking for a good/cost effective cloud storage to archive off a lot of documents, drawings, VMs, videos etc.. all kinds of things..

What's the best option in 2024?
 
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