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Mechanical or SSD for offsite storage that’s updated at least yearly? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml
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I have about 100gb and growing that is critical for my business. File size growth is slow, so it will be years and years before it even gets to 200gb.

I have multiple local copies and a copy in google drive, but I want to leave a hard drive at my mother-in-law’s house.

I only want 2.5 form factor or smaller as my mother-in-law will be carrying it here when she comes to visit us on the city.

I’m not sure what the recommendation is. I’m not a millionaire, I’m just freelance. So, I’d like to minimize cost.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/?p=pm&c=s3&z=4

This was what I was thinking about. I would definitely not use gdrive a a critical backup and the glacier tier at aws should be sufficient and cheaper than a hdd for years

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Backblaze B2 is another option. Not sure if its as cheap as Glacier as its hard to compare usage based billing.

    I pay about $1-2 USD/mo for 100GB. Storage is about $0.02/day, The rest of the cost is access costs.

    I use rclone to do my own encryption. Most of the cost is probably backing up my phone nightly (Round Sync which is rclone on Android). Specifically signal results in a new 400Mb backup every night with 99% of the same data as the last backup.

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