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$20 a month gives you "unlimited" storage at google. they gladly take my encrypted files for years now and I'm up to 80TB. i think its more than reasonable to
by flatiron 4y ago
$20 a month gives you "unlimited" storage at google. they gladly take my encrypted files for years now and I'm up to 80TB. i think its more than reasonable to pay them for that type of service and be slightly above board (the account type i have says i need a minimum of 5 people but its just me).
- www_harka_com 4y agoWhich service is that? Doesn't Workspace allow 1TB?
- flatiron 4y agohttps://workspace.google.com/pricing.html https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html Enterprise is $20 (for me at least)
- gekoxyz 4y agohow do you manage the encryption/decryption?
- willmorrison 4y agoOne option is Cryptomator: https://cryptomator.org/ https://cryptomator.org/
- trvz 4y agohttps://rclone.org/crypt/ https://rclone.org/crypt/
- baal80spam 4y agoLove rclone!
- flatiron 4y agoI use Rclone but sadly started this process before it supported crypt so I use encfs
- ranting-moth 4y agoBorg backup
- coldblues 4y agoThat doesn't seem to be the case anymore. You have to pay for all the users to get the benefit of unlimited storage.
- flatiron 4y agoI must be grand fathered in. I pay $20 flat per month.
- CTDOCodebases 4y agoAre you paying month to month or yearly? I don't know if you can rely on that storage being available. See below. https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-happens-to-your-g-suite-unlimited-storage-when-google-moves-you-to-workspace/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-happens-to-your-g-suite-u...
- flatiron 4y agoI pay $20 a month
- CTDOCodebases 4y agoYou could have got lucky but a bit risky to rely on this data being there IMHO.
- deadfece 4y ago$100/mo for absolutely unlimited is still an incredible bargain. $20/mo is in the neighborhood of almost free.
- Dylan16807 4y agoA hundred dollars a month is only an incredible bargain if you have huge amounts of data. The average person could buy a $100 external drive and replace it every five years, and that would be enough.
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- recuter 4y agohttps://diskprices.com https://diskprices.com Price per TB appears to have fallen below $8. So that's $640 worth of storage. Basically, if you were to buy your own hard drives it works out to about $20/mo over two years..
- Oxxide 4y ago8 dollars for a TB of storage, man. It still makes me feel awestruck sometimes when I see stufff like a $23 3TB HDD.
- Damogran6 4y agoI'm betting Google Storage is a little more fault tolerant...
- manquer 4y agoThis particular account while loss making for them it is not by all that much. A comparable Cloud Storage account on GCP with Coldline storage would be $320/month ($0.004 GB/month) or just $96/month for archival ($.0012/month). The actual cost to Google is probably < $80/month for this 80TB ( most of the data is going to be in stored in a version of archival given the standard restrictions of 10TB on export. 80TB is also an heavy outlier, given the typical available bandwidth today and disk sizes commercially available for most users it will take a lot of dedicated investment of effort and time to upload this amount of data into the cloud. Also Google's personal storage pricing is not competitive for pure storage, Backblaze is only $7/month for example. The higher price and value is derived from able to integrate into other Google products and provide storage for those like Gmail, Photos etc.
- recuter 4y agoThe other reply mentions backblaze. Whether you choose to use them or not their published driver statistics are quite useful: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2022/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-202... A well chosen model has an AFR of well below 1%. To get about say, 100TB, you'd need a dozen drives or so with ZFS and a nice enclosure. It is unlikely even one of them will fail in a given year and you will not experience data loss. Here is a $100 case: https://ja.aliexpress.com/item/1005003125774264.html https://ja.aliexpress.com/item/1005003125774264.html Here is some YouTuber shoving 100TB into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boKmZKTKXHc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boKmZKTKXHc
- renonce 4y agoHow long does it take for you to download 80TB? From what I can see Google allows you to download 10TB per day but who knows when they will change that limit.
- selectodude 4y agoEven with a gigabit internet connection that would take a couple hundred hours.
- ta1243 4y agoA useful rule of thumb to remember, 1gbit/second is about 10TB/day
- flatiron 4y agoMy work flow doesn’t have me redownloading the entire set. I have the drive mounted so it’s more light push and pull.
- PYTHONDJANGO 4y agoThis information is wrong. Please give an URL to the service you are writing about to prove that it is right, thanks.
- flatiron 4y agoIt is not wrong. I pay it every month. https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html The enterprise plan.
- simonmysun 4y agoFrom what I read they have a limit of 5TB per user. What region are you in? Could you provide an archive link or something to prove it?
- sam_goody 4y agoWhich means that if for whatever the reason they decide to close your account - say one of the pictures in those 80TB triggers something that looks like CSAM [1] - and you are seriously up the creek. Ditto if someone gets hold of your phone and changes the login on your account, or they decide to not let you in because something "looks suspicious". You are brave. I hope, for your sake, you have a local backup. [1]: https://9to5google.com/2022/08/22/google-locked-account-medical-photo-story/ https://9to5google.com/2022/08/22/google-locked-account-medi...