I am trying to get away from Google and am looking for a decent cloud service that’s integrated well into Linux, either by itself or by using rclone.
I tried Proton drive, but it is laggy and overall not very good.
I just need storage, nothing fancy. Self hosting is not an option tough, at this time.
EDIT: I don’t want to write the same answer 15 times, so I’ll just put this here: Thanks a lot for the recommendations to all of you! I’ve got some reading up to do now :-)
Those cheaper drives scare me.
What grinds my gears is you can rent enough compute to handle this for $30 a month. That covers redundant internet, staff, fire suppression, generators, air conditioning.
I want to couple that with a chassis full of sata. Obviously more power and heat but not 16 times that.
You can get 2u of colocation for about a hundred bucks per month. I’ve been pondering for a few years building out a 4u chassis and doing a friends and fam storage co-op. You could do a 208tb (real 189) z2 with two parity drives for around $4,500 bucks plus 100-130 a month.
The current pricing is all based on SAS. Even the companies that aren’t using SAS are still charging like it is.
My husband says that they follow a “bathtub” curve and they either die in the first 60 days or last about 2 years when they are scheduled to be replaced.
Further he says enterprise drives stopped having ECC in 2008; so they stopped having any reason to trust them more.
I don’t trust anything further than their warranty. They’re setting their warranty to protect their bank account; those numbers will average in their favor.
Yeah, we don’t trust their warranties; the manufacturers have repeatedly failed to honor their obligations even when drives die well within the manufacturer warranty.
Also they have become crap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b0JcNqkZrk