RIP Amazon Unlimited Cloud storage ;-;

[The Benjamins]

 

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Amazon had the best deal in online storage — unlimited backup for $59.99  — but now unlimited is out. It has been replaced with tiered pricing, the system used by Amazon’s rivals.

The new rate, announced to customers Wednesday night, is now $59.99 yearly for 1 terabyte of online backup, with each additional terabyte (TB) costing an additional $59.99 annually.

Additionally, Amazon is introducing a lower-priced tier set at 100 GBs of storage for $11.99 yearly.

 

This sucks I was just getting close to copying my NAS to it (~8TB) and now I need to find another cheap alternative.

 

Anyone have any recommendations on high/unlimited online storage providers?

 

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/08/amazon-ends-its-unlimited-cloud-storage-plan/

[zzzzzzzhhh]

Bummer dude. I don't normally store online, so I haven't got the answer you are looking for, but maybe try using Google Drive instead?

[kiska3]

lol we all knew this would end?

[Napper198]

well they got rid of 3rd party app support 3 weeks ago as well. because of a security breach that was discovered recently. Now I lost my perfectly fine 9TB backup because I can't decrypt it anymore. RIP 2 months worth of upload

 

Time to hop onto Gsuite and start all over

[tlink]

whoa thats a huge price difference. if i had the money to use their backup solution it would have over 10TB on it easily.

[The Benjamins]

4 minutes ago, Vespertine said:

Bummer dude. I don't normally store online, so I haven't got the answer you are looking for, but maybe try using Google Drive instead?

I was using it as a backup if for some reason it all disappears.

Google is $100/m Per TB

Drop box is $12.5/m 2 TB or $60/m unlimited

 

I was going to try BackBlaze BUT their software will not work on windows server so that sucks. I may try CrashPlan

 

2 minutes ago, Napper198 said:

well they got rid of 3rd party app support 3 weeks ago as well. because of a security breach that was discovered recently. Now I lost my perfectly fine 9TB backup because I can't decrypt it anymore. RIP 2 months worth of upload

 

Time to hop onto Gsuite and start all over

 

don't you need 5 users at $10/m to get unlimited so that would be $50/m

[AnonymousGuy]

1 minute ago, The Benjamins said:

I was using it as a backup if for some reason it all disappears.

Google is $100/m Per TB

Drop box is $12.5/m 2 TB or $60/m unlimited

 

I was going to try BackBlaze BUT their software will not work on windows server so that sucks. I may try CrashPlan

Google Enterprise is unlimited for $10 / month.  I use that and CrashPlan and have 15 TB stored in both places.

 

I don't much like either one because they don't seem designed to handle massive 100+GB files.

[Mooshi]

Why would anyone ever backup so much online anyway? Personal nas boxes exist for a reason.

[Napper198]

1 minute ago, The Benjamins said:

I was using it as a backup if for some reason it all disappears.

Google is $100/m Per TB

Drop box is $12.5/m 2 TB or $60/m unlimited

 

I was going to try BackBlaze BUT their software will not work on windows server so that sucks. I may try CrashPlan

I had crashplan before but it was terribly slow (took me 6 months to reach sync) and it just stopped working for me all together after about 8 months.

[The Benjamins]

2 minutes ago, AnonymousGuy said:

Google Enterprise is unlimited for $10 / month.  I use that and CrashPlan and have 15 TB stored in both places.

 

I don't much like either one because they don't seem designed to handle massive 100+GB files.

I thought GSuite needed 5 users for unlimited.

 

Just now, Mooshi said:

Why would anyone ever backup so much online anyway? Personal nas boxes exist for a reason.

I have a 16TB NAS but I would like a off site backup, and I was using amazon as a cheap solution.

 

My NAS uses a RAID 10 setup but I just want that extra security.

[AnonymousGuy]

1 minute ago, The Benjamins said:

I thought GSuite needed 5 users for unlimited.

It may be a loophole that with 1 user you can have unlimited.  Or my account is grandfathered.  Unsure, but it says 17.8TB used right now.

[.spider.]

Everybody who believed this will last forever and even uploaded a lot of date is very naive imo. 

[Napper198]

1 minute ago, The Benjamins said:

I thought GSuite needed 5 users for unlimited.

according to /r/datahoarder this is not yet enforced, but with a shit ton of people hoppping on now this might change rather quickly, but even then it seems to be th cheapest option for now

[AnonymousGuy]

2 minutes ago, Napper198 said:

according to /r/datahoarder this is not yet enforced, but with a shit ton of people hoppping on now this might change rather quickly, but even then it seems to be th cheapest option for now

Is there really anything preventhng someone from running a "business" of having people pay them $10 per month to be an "employee" and have unlimited storage?

[The Benjamins]

3 minutes ago, Napper198 said:

according to /r/datahoarder this is not yet enforced, but with a shit ton of people hoppping on now this might change rather quickly, but even then it seems to be th cheapest option for now

Is their app good at managing the back up or should I use a 3rd party tool. (I am using syncbackpro for amazon currently.)

[AnonymousGuy]

1 minute ago, The Benjamins said:

Is their app good at managing the back up or should I use a 3rd party tool. (I am using syncbackpro for amazon currently.)

I find it does OK, but every app really doesn't seem to like gigantic files that take several hours or even days to upload.  They seem to get confused / lost after a while maybe because they're trying to do data deduplication on it.

[Napper198]

1 minute ago, AnonymousGuy said:

Is there really anything preventhng someone from running a "business" of having people pay them $10 per month to be an "employee" and have unlimited storage?

the amount of necessary trust for random people on the internet?

Just now, The Benjamins said:

Is their app good at managing the back up or should I use a 3rd party tool. (I am using syncbackpro for amazon currently.)

dunno, I'm usiing rclone to have it encrypted as well but --bandwidthlimit doesn't work particularly well

[AnonymousGuy]

1 minute ago, Napper198 said:

the amount of necessary trust for random people on the internet?

dunno, I'm usiing rclone to have it encrypted as well but --bandwidthlimit doesn't work particularly well

If someone doesn't pay you you could just turn off their access to google drive in the admin console

 

I don't think administrators can see the contents of users drive folders.  Just usage numbers.

[Ryujin2003]

At least they still have unlimited photo storage. They beat rivals because they don't compress your images. I don't generally trust cloud storage though. Non important things, sure. But not the contents of my hard drive. Local backups only.

[AnonymousGuy]

5 minutes ago, Ryujin2003 said:

At least they still have unlimited photo storage. They beat rivals because they don't compress your images. I don't generally trust cloud storage though. Non important things, sure. But not the contents of my hard drive. Local backups only.

I only back up encrypted archives to the cloud, so they can't access the data anyways even with god-mode.

 

It also fucks over their ability to deduplicate data lol.

[HalGameGuru]

Does this effect Amazon Glacier?

[.spider.]

4 minutes ago, HalGameGuru said:

Does this effect Amazon Glacier?

Of course not. It is still 0.4 cents per gigabyte and month in most regions. 

[sazrocks]

28 minutes ago, AnonymousGuy said:

I only back up encrypted archives to the cloud, so they can't access the data anyways even with god-mode.

 

It also fucks over their ability to deduplicate data lol.

How are you doing that automatically?

[AnonymousGuy]

59 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

How are you doing that automatically?

Acronis backs up on a schedule to a dedicated folder.  Folder gets uploaded to google and crash plan. 

[Dabombinable]

The cost of a 1TB HDD upfront is about the cost of their 1TB of cloud storage....methinks it'd be better to have an offline storage server with 1TB or larger HDD.