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For example something like that: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/silent-fanless-freebsd-server-redundant-backup/ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/

For example something like that: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/silent-fanless-freebsd-server-redundant-backup/ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/silent-fanless-fre... It will provide you a ZFS mirror of two 5 TB 2.5 drives. I repaste the table from the article for convenience. PRICE TIME SERVICE $447 5 YEAR(S) Self Build NAS $567 5 YEAR(S) Self Build NAS (assuming one of the drives failed) $1500 5 YEAR(S) Amazon Drive $1550 5 YEAR(S) Google One $1200 5 YEAR(S) Amazon S3 Glacier Storage $2250 5 YEAR(S) Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

prirun 6y ago
The Backblaze B2 prices are not correct. In the original article, it states: "For the Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage I assumed average between upload/download price because upload is two times cheaper then download." In fact, uploads on B2 are free, and download bandwidth is cheaper than any other supplier I know of at 1 cent per GB, with a free daily allowance of 1GB. Storage rates are 1/2 cent per GB per month, of $5/mo per TB, including redundancy. The storage cost of 5TB for Backblaze B2 for 5 years would be $60/year or $300 for 5 years, the upload cost is free, and if you downloaded your entire 5TB each month, it would cost less than $600 over 5 years because you'd also have the 1GB/day free download allowance. HashBackup (I'm the author) uses the free B2 daily allowance to pack older backup data, which sometimes requires an download and upload cycle. I couldn't find the upload/download bandwidth assumptions, but these numbers are way off IMO.