Well, I don't store photos or movies, but there is some audio data and total system backups. I'm currently using Cloudberry + Wasabi and pay about $10/month for

Well, I don't store photos or movies, but there is some audio data and total system backups. I'm currently using Cloudberry + Wasabi and pay about $10/month for 1.7TB data on a European server. There is no good way around paying if you want some cloud storage to protect against fire damage, etc. You could ask friends to host servers for you in exchange for you offering disk space for them, but this is very fragile and incurs too much administrative burdens in the long run. If I were you, I'd delete 90% or more of those photos and videos to save running costs. I don't know how enthusiastic you are about watching photos of yourself when you were shitting your pants as a toddler, but, speaking for myself, I'd consider being urged to watch even a small fraction of what you have at family reunions some form of torture....