OneDrive family. It gives you 1 TB per account. You can add up to 5 members and they don't give a fuck about pirated content. I've been using them for the last 2 years without any encryption and I've had no problems.

No matter what you choose, encrypt the data you store to avoid drama.

You could take a look at wasabi. Keep in mind that I think they have minimum commit. So if you add 1tb of data, you are charged for storing it a minimum of a few months.

Backblaze b2 and cloudflare r2 are also options.

Google drive is also a decent storage platform at a reasonable price. 9.99/mo for 2tb. You can check the rclone matrix for features and alternatives.

If it's a static amount of data you could look into glacier. I'm not sure what the exact retrieval costs would be but maybe they're lower than renting 4TB of space elsewhere.

No way to tell as it depends on all kinds of factors, like workload and IO requirements. For example you could spin up a very cheap spinning rust Ceph cluster for archival use cases or you could have a very fast NVMe/PMEM cluster for compute workloads.

I am managing all kinds of installations.

And before somebody ask no, not piracy related lmao.

(Replying with my lemmy account as my other account apparently isn’t federating with programming.dev)

Basically it allows you to buy or rent your own physical servers and then use the free and open source software Ceph to setup your own cloud storage on top of them.

Depending on the scale you need, it's much cheaper than cloud storage providers, but obviously comes with the caveat that you need to manage everything yourself.

Ceph can be run on multiple machines and tied together into one big singular storage cluster that can be used for basically anything.

It's not exactly a beginner friendly solution though as you have to do all the work.

It's not a "cloud service" that you can just sign up for and push data to.

Why?

https://github.com/DvorakDwarf/Infinite-Storage-Glitch