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If you travel to Australia, be prepared that they might force you to hand over your devices and passwords, and that they may detain you in a room while they take your devices to a different room to do who-knows-what with them. They are also allowed to make full copies of your unencrypted devices.
 
According to this article, they did this around 41.000 times between 2017 and 2021, without warrants.
 
It's still probably a very small percentage of travelers, but it is something to keep in mind. Australia is not exactly well known for being friendly towards encryption and privacy.

If it's just for archived storage, look at AWS's S3 tiers.   Check some reviews and pricing calculators, as depending on your specific use case, choosing the wrong tier can get expensive, but as long as you do your homework, it's pretty reasonable.  
 
Here's the pricing breakdown sheet:
Amazon S3 Simple Storage Service Pricing - Amazon Web Services
 
You may want to compare these to Azure or Google data storage options as well, I haven't had to crunch these numbers in a long time.   The nice thing about AWS when I was using it is that most of the standard NAS devices actually had a tool built in to do automatic archiving to it. 

Last time I went to Australia (2012 iirc) they took my laptop, camera, SD cards, ipod, and external HDD to check them (I'm was there to take landscape pictures) and I spent six hours in detention while they kept asking me where the CP was. They eventually did let me go because they obviously didn't find anything.

I probably won't ever go back to Australia. I found the whole process ridiculous. NZ gets my tourist dollars now.

A storage device check sounds dystopia as fuck. I wasn't even aware that might be a thing. 

Ah, so the good ol' rip.
Guess a new one it is then. I'm not too keen on getting it repaired either lol, its old.

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