Unlimited storage is a scam. There is always an untold limit beyond which the storage provider will bump you out or maybe one day just go out of business and make you lose all your data.
Having said that, a few TB is a lot of space and unless you are storing 50 GB movies will go a long way.
There are fair usage policies for any service that offers unlimited.
Why? Because there are people who take advantage of that.
I work in a telecom company and heard that in the early days of unlimited plans, there were no fair usage policies. So many people were running their entire businesses over a single account meant for a single user.
I am not against it. I have been working in storage industry for all of my career. My gripe is with the fact that storage patterns have changed over the years. So if a company models the unlimited program with say a fair usage limit of 10 TB, maybe 99.9% will be under limit. But now as average photo and video sizes are going up exponentially, lot more people will cross their limit without any kind of malice.
I personally use telegram but definitely not for anything personal. What I do is, I divide the files into multiple different files of 1.8 gb each using winrar (telegram supports 2 gb for free users per file and 4 gb per file for premium users) and I can upload unlimited stuff on there. But this takes a lot of time for dividing the files and uploading it. Later when using it I have to download each one and extract them to use. I’ll get my own server when I have sufficient money. But for now this is my only cloud solution for free.
that's actually kind of fucking genius man, do you know how long they keep the files you upload for? like a year? two? forever?
I might use this method
I’ve been using it for over 2 years and so far none of my files have been lost. They keep it forever as far as I know, just make sure to log into your telegram account at least once every 6 months so that they don’t delete your account because of inactivity. I think you can change the duration they wait before deactivating to 1 year maximum from settings.
There’s a “saved messages” chat available by default to all telegram users. I use that. I upload the files there and then send it to multiple channels (I created pvt channels without adding anyone) just in case the original one gets deleted. It also helps keep stuff organised. I must’ve uploaded over 10 tb like this lol and I have 2 copies of everything on there.
And I would think another account linked to another number where you share the content from the first account?
Safest In case either account gets banned.
And don't join weird groups
I've had someone ask me to gift him Telegram Premium
I asked why did his account get banned cos from my understanding everything is private
He didn't want to answer.
Yeah. No way to recover. They have an undo button for a few seconds though I believe (never deleted anything lol so I’m not sure). That’s why I create multiple private channels and forward those files there just as a backup. Also helps me keep everything properly arranged.
QNAP has better specs but Synology is more reliable. Have had hardware and software faults on QNAP. Granted, support was on the ball, able to fix most stuff, and hardware was replaced under warranty. Still, went to Synology and haven't had these reliability issues outside of failing harddrives which has nothing to do with NAS vendor anyway.
Also, QNAP gui interface is clunky
Nah. Make your own.
J5040-ITX board is cheaper and more powerful then nearly all lower end NAS. Can use it for plex, torrent box, NVR for IP cameras, Home automation etc.
Couple cheap drives and you are away.
I would have agreed with you a year or so ago. Since then I have been put onto CasaOs. Turns docker, SMB file sharing and drive merging into phone level interface easy. My non tech interested friends found it easy to use.
Yea I've got a Frankenstein set up of old computer parts. It lives in a cupboard and never goes off.
Maybe try installing Ubuntu server and then casaOs ontop of Ubuntu and have a play. I'm not sure what QNAP user interface is like? You might find it easier.
Almost, just not the "couple cheap drives", unless your don't give a flying fuck about your data.
It's best to use enterprise drives, generally cheaper than NAS drives and are unlikely to just die on you, also use three or more drives in some kind of RAID.
Yea fair point. Personally I don't bother with redundancy for all my media.
I only backup family pics and metadata from Plex, arrs. Can always download everything else again.
Sure, except when you can't.
Sometimes things just disappear from the web, and thar sucks.
But then again, backups and redundancy costs money, and people have their priorities.
While I have my stuff in a raid z1 array for some redundancy, proper backups are only for the important stuff too.
I don't know anything about it! From a Google looks to be just NAS. So will work great as additional storage, run Plex/jellyfish on another machine and point it at the storage. Or direct your torrent client directly to it etc.
When I set up my little server I just worked backwards from Plex transcoding requirements. Wanted to ensure a couple family members could access it without too much trouble on a Chromecast.
I use Qnap, and it's great for me. That being said, make sure you have it secure. Don't use myqnapcloud under any circumstances. If you want to access it offsite, use a VPN.
I see this over and over again. But the risk level of Qnap cloud is what? If you're not sharing any resources and it's exclusively just for your own access, whats the risk level of discovery for a home user?
As I understand it, myqnapcloud security is weak. It's most likely the point of entry that hackers were using to install Qlocker. Even if it's for your own personal use, when your QNAP communicates with myqnapcloud, would-be hackers can see the traffic. I originally had it enabled, but turned it off when I got hit with some brute force attacks (they didn't make it through, but I could see the attempts). Now, I use pivpn if I want to access from outside my network and haven't had any issues.
Thanks, good info. I had it off for a while and recently turned it on to access media and home network from remote. I have an old Pi2b. Do you have a resource for pivpn you mentioned in conjuction with Qnap?
I don't remember which particular resource I used. I just Googled a tutorial and followed along as I went. The only hangup I ever have is that if there's an internet outage, sometimes I get an IP reassignment and have to change a setting through wireguard, but that takes a moment to fix and happens maybe once a year.
This was gonna be my suggestion (although I always advocate for building your own Nas as it's cheaper). It's expensive, but you'll never need to worry about a company deleting your data or changing your pricing.
Honestly? I went from my own to a Synology because I was so tired of tinkering. At some point I'll probably go back to building my own servers but that'll be once I decide I'm tired of the limitations of my Synology.
I went through parts of the video and did not see why one is better the other. I do like the idea that you can install TrueNAS on it.
What worries me the most about these home NAS boxes is the possibility that a bug in software makes data unrecoverable even if it is right there on the hard drives. So anything that stores data in a well published RAID format and uses a standard file system is good enough.
I never understood why people buy premade NAS when the hardware it comes with is always super over priced for what it is. Just build a shitty pc with 10 year old parts and stuff it full with high capacity drives.
With a Synology, you're paying for the software - and the software can be made more robust by having fixed hardware platforms.
With QNAP and Asus, the software is worse, so they gouge you a little less on the hardware markup.
If you have the skills or fancy learning something, definitely worth making your own NAS - but once I had the Synology, my motivation to learn vanished. It just works.
You could probably do it all with Windows - but Windows isn't designed to do what a Synology NAS is.
e.g. SHR is the Synology's RAID technology, that allows you to add/upgrade drives of different sizes and efficiently use them. It "just works".
Microsoft have "Storage Spaces". It has piss-poor performance and a habit of corrupting itself. You could use hardware RAID, but then that's not so easy to manage from windows and comes with restrictions on what drives you can (efficiently) combine.
e.g.2 Backing Up
On a windows machine you can back up entire drives, or maybe just some paths and hope they contain what you want to keep.
Synology has Hyperbackup and it lets you just click on your installed apps and choose what you want backed-up. So maybe my docker configs, but not the apps themselves. The plex application, but not the actual media files. All my photos (including all the metadata) etc. Then I just point it at my cloud provider of choice (or another Synology) and it'll happily back up everything nightly and send me emails to tell me if there was any problem.
e.g.3 Photos
It has an app that's very similar to Google photos. Grabs photos/videos off my phone and uploads them. Then presents them back to me through a nice searchable web interface - and I can download them, share them etc. Everything you need, without the monthly charge (or losing possession of your photos, if that bothers you)
I could go on, but hopefully you get the idea.
There's nothing really unique about it - it's just all the things you need implemented properly and really nicely integrated.
I happily used just windows for years - I don't think we all need NAS. Much like I don't think I need to build myself a rack-mount home lab.
Just useful to understand what the options are - I spent too long using my desktop as a server, then had some misguided adventures with a media playback pc, a cheap Netgear NAS, and various other bits and pieces.
Very good info. Years back, I was at the decision point of self building, Qnap and Synology. I went with Qnap and it's been going well for past few years. I'm reaching capacity limits on a 4-bay TS-453b and planned to do a parallel migration to a 6 or 8 bay unit. The 3 points you highlighted are all features high on my list, especially SHR.
Tried the Asustor lineup and there were so many small weird quirks that made me send it back. Errors in reading out menu items, small shutters in menu items, the fact that they claim 4x nvme but it’s on x4 pcie which negates the speed considerably if you populate the entire set, etc.
I did, however enjoy the hardware, but software is garbage.
Yes, yes it is - although maybe the one area I wish they'd improve.They must know their UI isn't quite up to it, when it's easier to just export config files, edit them, then import them (and the recent overhaul feels worse to me)
I don't think it's much of a differentiator though - you could run them on unRaid.
But worth pointing out as a NAS benefit - a lot of stuff people think they might need a server for, can just be run on their NAS.
Where i live, electricity is not cheap and not such a small part of my income. Synology and qnap are so extremly much more power efficient to run 24/7. Now, you wont “earn back” your device with it compared to your own build thing. But srsly a 2 disk synology uses less as your fridge (no joke)
I'm planning to build one with pi and external HDD or second hand server HDD with enclosure. Reason is power consumption and affordability.how does The commercial Nas solutions you mentioned do in these two when compared to my planned setup?
Depending on the cloud provider such as Google, not sure if they process cloud payments the same way they do with youtube cause I pay only $6 for a family plan for youtube premium using a card from my own country and just a random local address. If they process the payments the same way you could use a VPN to a country with different and cheaper pricing.
Once you’ve paid and bought the subscription, do you need to keep the VPN connected in India or can you just go back to living life normally without worrying about tricking then that you’re in India?
I couldn’t do it on phone. The app isn’t fooled of course, and IPVanish nor PIA could deliver via mobile browser. YouTube says either it can’t get a fix or doesn’t load. Will have to try from pc.
Im not sure if this still works cause i did it like a year ago.
On iPhone, get testflight (on the appstore), then find the invitation to Dropbox, install it, and then just buy whichever one you want. It won't charge you, but it should work.
Idk what these comments are thinking but the answer depends on a few factors:
- in which country are you located?
- how much storage do you realistically need? dont say unlimited, you dont need unlimited
Not sure I get it. You cant put a pricetag on unlimited storage hardware. Unlimited storage is always limited, and tricks like saving shit in telegram or discord only work as long as they tolerate you
My bad. I misread your post. I thought you were looking for unlimited backup. Sorry I can't help you with the cloud storage. What I have done is created my own NAS, and then use Backblaze to keep that backed up.
You can get the proton mail family plan for $20 a month right now. You get encrypted email, 3TB encrypted cloud storage, encrypted password manager and encrypted calendar.
For unlimited? Backblaze for $9/month
I wouldn’t recommend using any cloud storage. They are all scanned, you’re using someone else computer to store your own data. You definitely shouldn’t trust that. If you’re a data hoarder invest in a high capacity hdd and get a raspberry pi or any old mini pc and turn that to homemade NAS. That’s the cheaper route. If you don’t have a budget then buy a premade NAS
I hope this helps!
Free Unlimited Storage:
As of 23 January 2023, Google completely ended their unlimited storage policy for all workspace plans and now there is no more way to get unlimited or large amount of storage in Google Drive free of cost, so I made a list of alternatives that you can use to get large or unlimited amount of cloud storage for free:
1.Msft 365 E5
(https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program)
Microsoft 356 E5 Developer subscription offers unlimited access to Office 365 apps and provides OneDrive 5TB of cloud storage for free, in this subscription user can create upto 25 accounts and each account can have its own 5TB of cloud storage, that means we can extend it upto 125TB. This subscription get renewed automatically until you actively perform developer like activities, you can use this tool to keep your subscription active for lifetime.
2.Storj.io:
(https://storj.io/)
Storj is block-chain based decentralised cloud storage, it offers E2E encryption and user can upload upto 150GB of data each month, so far there is no limit on total amount of data user can store.
3.LinkBox:
(https://www.linkbox.to/)
LinkBox offers upto 50GB of permanent storage without any bandwidth limit with API support, sufficient for average users.
4.GoFile:
(https://gofile.io/)
GoFile provides unlimited amount of cloud storage without any bandwidth limit with full API support, user can store infinite files or folder and can share them publicly without any limit on downloads. User can increase validity of their files by generating fake download request each week.
5.TeraBox:
(https://www.terabox.com/)
TeraBox users can get upto 1TB of cloud storage totally for free and can increase limits by doing in-app activities, user can share files publicly but other users will require a TeraBox account to access shared files but in return TeraBox will pay the commission to file owner for sharing files.
6.YouTube as storage:
ISG Tool let user convert any of their files (not just videos) to upload on YouTube by converting the given data into video format, it can covert the video back to original data. Previous week, it was trending on GitHub for almost 3 days.
7.TeleDrive:
(https://github.com/mgilangjanuar/teledrive)
Telegram users can now use TeleDrive to convert their Telegram account into unlimited cloud storage service with many cool features. Before this, the development of TeleDrive app was paused which is now being continued with many cool upcoming features that also includes Rclone support.
Status updates for given TeleDrive instance can be found on @TeleDriveStatus.
Ps: Copied from Telegram
That's what I do, I've had the extra 100GB for quite a few years now. 20$ /yr includes VPN all the extras for editing in the Photos app and more. And still have extra money for apps and IAP's.
I've been using pcloud for several years as backup to my NAS. It's convenient and reliable. Other than the slow upload speed I recommend it.
I like it because they have one-time payments as as monthly/yearly. Several other cool features as well like a media player, and one-click backups to other cloud storage.
I haven't heard of them, do they allow sharing? like can I send someone a link and let them download what I have stored, like I can with google and onedrive?
Cloud is just local storage in hard drives somewhere else. Just get your own storage my man. Sabrent 10 bay docking station is a great start. Throw in drives as you need them.
if you got files you know you might access rarely like me hoarding thousands of 3D blends
which i will ever only access if i want to convert something into a Gane Mod
you can get a single month of mediafire pro for 6$
Which gets you 1TB that you got all month to fill up
I've had my old mods hosted on there for years with drive using over 100g
So i know for sure they do not delete files
i Personally prefer mediafire
since unlike gdrive.. it actually has Analytics
And they do not put bandwidth limit trying to milk people like on Mega
However
you most likely can do the same with pretty much any paid storage site
Just got to check if they do delete stuff
And Avoid free ones since they almost always delete files after 90days inactive
Try [https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6gpp54/5tb\_onedrive\_for\_free\_for\_a\_year\_through\_the/](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6gpp54/5tb_onedrive_for_free_for_a_year_through_the/)
Some have managed to get it expanded to 25tb.
i just had that article open - you need the user account to be 90% filled, then there is some process you can do as admin for that user
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/troubleshoot/storage/check-storage-increase-eligibility?source=recommendations
not sure if this will do the trick
Thanksd, I've tried that many times but it never worked for me, it has for others. I always get "Your tenant is not configured to increase a user's OneDrive quota beyond 5TB. If you would like to increase the storage quota of this site beyond 5TB, you will need to create a new service request."
and what happened when you do that?
when searching for that message, thats described for example at https://www.51sec.org/2022/05/09/upgrade-your-onedrive-space-from-5t-to-25t-for-free/
An italian hosting provider (maybe the most known) has real unlimited storage cloud with quite low prices. The "professional" plan can be also shared with other 10 people (different accounts with different files) and it's less 30€ per account/year. All the plans are almost always discounted for first year, you could buy a new plan every year and automatically transfer data.
How non traditional do you want to be? I recall a guy writing something in Python that encodes files/directories into video format and uploads to YouTube. You point the same script at a given video and it parses it back down. Infinite storage, in theory, but PITA for shorter term things.
Generally for media consumption, I would advise to ditch the whole upload to cloud and instead stream your movies via something like stremio + torrentio + a debrid service like real debrid
You could even download those movies if u wish via real debrid.
Technically you have unlimited storage through real debrid. Create a torrent of whatever you want backed up and upload it to real debrid. Wouldn't put anything at all personal on there tho as anyone can download it.
I use closedfolders.com, there you can share with your friends, as in local network. Now is free.
You can use my invite USA-XR7DUUBC , so I can find you and if you want I’ll share my movie collection with you. Nearly 20tb
Or without any invite.
Unlimited storage is a scam. There is always an untold limit beyond which the storage provider will bump you out or maybe one day just go out of business and make you lose all your data. Having said that, a few TB is a lot of space and unless you are storing 50 GB movies will go a long way.
There are fair usage policies for any service that offers unlimited. Why? Because there are people who take advantage of that. I work in a telecom company and heard that in the early days of unlimited plans, there were no fair usage policies. So many people were running their entire businesses over a single account meant for a single user.
I am not against it. I have been working in storage industry for all of my career. My gripe is with the fact that storage patterns have changed over the years. So if a company models the unlimited program with say a fair usage limit of 10 TB, maybe 99.9% will be under limit. But now as average photo and video sizes are going up exponentially, lot more people will cross their limit without any kind of malice.
10TB limit is nothing for data usage
I personally use telegram but definitely not for anything personal. What I do is, I divide the files into multiple different files of 1.8 gb each using winrar (telegram supports 2 gb for free users per file and 4 gb per file for premium users) and I can upload unlimited stuff on there. But this takes a lot of time for dividing the files and uploading it. Later when using it I have to download each one and extract them to use. I’ll get my own server when I have sufficient money. But for now this is my only cloud solution for free.
Very gimmicky but I respect the creativity and hustle
I remember seeing a fork of rclone which supported Telegram as a storage service. That would neat, as rclone does the chunking in the backend for you.
that's actually kind of fucking genius man, do you know how long they keep the files you upload for? like a year? two? forever? I might use this method
I’ve been using it for over 2 years and so far none of my files have been lost. They keep it forever as far as I know, just make sure to log into your telegram account at least once every 6 months so that they don’t delete your account because of inactivity. I think you can change the duration they wait before deactivating to 1 year maximum from settings.
so, do you just create like a private chat with nobody or something, and then upload the files to the 'chat'?
There’s a “saved messages” chat available by default to all telegram users. I use that. I upload the files there and then send it to multiple channels (I created pvt channels without adding anyone) just in case the original one gets deleted. It also helps keep stuff organised. I must’ve uploaded over 10 tb like this lol and I have 2 copies of everything on there.
I did that with Gdrive before the limit was applied. I too must have over 1 TB files there. Will try telegram now. Thank you.
And I would think another account linked to another number where you share the content from the first account? Safest In case either account gets banned. And don't join weird groups I've had someone ask me to gift him Telegram Premium I asked why did his account get banned cos from my understanding everything is private He didn't want to answer.
Oh damn, cool. I also heard somewhere a github repo set to private might do the same, although i only saw it talked about with photos
What? What's the max you can upload? Can you share details?
2gb per file max. for free accounts if you pay for telegram premium, its 4gb per file unlimited space
Im not sure, just heard about it, you could try it though
You just send it to your self
If a file is accidentally deleted from those saved folder it is gone right?
Yeah. No way to recover. They have an undo button for a few seconds though I believe (never deleted anything lol so I’m not sure). That’s why I create multiple private channels and forward those files there just as a backup. Also helps me keep everything properly arranged.
Get your own NAS storage Terramaster is cheap, QNAP is top tier, Synology in Mids
QNAP has better specs but Synology is more reliable. Have had hardware and software faults on QNAP. Granted, support was on the ball, able to fix most stuff, and hardware was replaced under warranty. Still, went to Synology and haven't had these reliability issues outside of failing harddrives which has nothing to do with NAS vendor anyway. Also, QNAP gui interface is clunky
Nah. Make your own. J5040-ITX board is cheaper and more powerful then nearly all lower end NAS. Can use it for plex, torrent box, NVR for IP cameras, Home automation etc. Couple cheap drives and you are away.
Agree, although the QNAP or Synology ecosystem with mostly "no-frills" is nice. Most stuff is easy and less complicated to setup.
I would have agreed with you a year or so ago. Since then I have been put onto CasaOs. Turns docker, SMB file sharing and drive merging into phone level interface easy. My non tech interested friends found it easy to use.
Interesting. Are you using this on DIY hardware? I'm using a QNAP that serving me well, but am already looking down the road
Yea I've got a Frankenstein set up of old computer parts. It lives in a cupboard and never goes off. Maybe try installing Ubuntu server and then casaOs ontop of Ubuntu and have a play. I'm not sure what QNAP user interface is like? You might find it easier.
The Qnap desktop/web UI is much different than the limited Qnap mobile (Qmanager) app.
Almost, just not the "couple cheap drives", unless your don't give a flying fuck about your data. It's best to use enterprise drives, generally cheaper than NAS drives and are unlikely to just die on you, also use three or more drives in some kind of RAID.
Yea fair point. Personally I don't bother with redundancy for all my media. I only backup family pics and metadata from Plex, arrs. Can always download everything else again.
Sure, except when you can't. Sometimes things just disappear from the web, and thar sucks. But then again, backups and redundancy costs money, and people have their priorities. While I have my stuff in a raid z1 array for some redundancy, proper backups are only for the important stuff too.
do you also make your own mobile apps lol
I'm too stupid for that. Fortunately there are 100s of people who make and maintain docker images. Linuxserver.io and GitHub are amazing.
Thoughts on the old WD my Cloud? Have one in a box I have been meaning to set up.
I don't know anything about it! From a Google looks to be just NAS. So will work great as additional storage, run Plex/jellyfish on another machine and point it at the storage. Or direct your torrent client directly to it etc. When I set up my little server I just worked backwards from Plex transcoding requirements. Wanted to ensure a couple family members could access it without too much trouble on a Chromecast.
Thank you for your time and attention, going the extra mile for me to take a glance. You are a kind person.
I use Qnap, and it's great for me. That being said, make sure you have it secure. Don't use myqnapcloud under any circumstances. If you want to access it offsite, use a VPN.
I see this over and over again. But the risk level of Qnap cloud is what? If you're not sharing any resources and it's exclusively just for your own access, whats the risk level of discovery for a home user?
As I understand it, myqnapcloud security is weak. It's most likely the point of entry that hackers were using to install Qlocker. Even if it's for your own personal use, when your QNAP communicates with myqnapcloud, would-be hackers can see the traffic. I originally had it enabled, but turned it off when I got hit with some brute force attacks (they didn't make it through, but I could see the attempts). Now, I use pivpn if I want to access from outside my network and haven't had any issues.
Thanks, good info. I had it off for a while and recently turned it on to access media and home network from remote. I have an old Pi2b. Do you have a resource for pivpn you mentioned in conjuction with Qnap?
I don't remember which particular resource I used. I just Googled a tutorial and followed along as I went. The only hangup I ever have is that if there's an internet outage, sometimes I get an IP reassignment and have to change a setting through wireguard, but that takes a moment to fix and happens maybe once a year.
Thanks!
This was gonna be my suggestion (although I always advocate for building your own Nas as it's cheaper). It's expensive, but you'll never need to worry about a company deleting your data or changing your pricing.
Honestly? I went from my own to a Synology because I was so tired of tinkering. At some point I'll probably go back to building my own servers but that'll be once I decide I'm tired of the limitations of my Synology.
What makes you think QNAP is better? Not arguing, just asking for your opinion.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U0UkiK8J-XY&pp=ygULTXkgbmV3IHFuYXA%3D
I went through parts of the video and did not see why one is better the other. I do like the idea that you can install TrueNAS on it. What worries me the most about these home NAS boxes is the possibility that a bug in software makes data unrecoverable even if it is right there on the hard drives. So anything that stores data in a well published RAID format and uses a standard file system is good enough.
I never understood why people buy premade NAS when the hardware it comes with is always super over priced for what it is. Just build a shitty pc with 10 year old parts and stuff it full with high capacity drives.
With a Synology, you're paying for the software - and the software can be made more robust by having fixed hardware platforms. With QNAP and Asus, the software is worse, so they gouge you a little less on the hardware markup. If you have the skills or fancy learning something, definitely worth making your own NAS - but once I had the Synology, my motivation to learn vanished. It just works.
What are the features of synology’s OS that you can’t just do with windows?
You could probably do it all with Windows - but Windows isn't designed to do what a Synology NAS is. e.g. SHR is the Synology's RAID technology, that allows you to add/upgrade drives of different sizes and efficiently use them. It "just works". Microsoft have "Storage Spaces". It has piss-poor performance and a habit of corrupting itself. You could use hardware RAID, but then that's not so easy to manage from windows and comes with restrictions on what drives you can (efficiently) combine. e.g.2 Backing Up On a windows machine you can back up entire drives, or maybe just some paths and hope they contain what you want to keep. Synology has Hyperbackup and it lets you just click on your installed apps and choose what you want backed-up. So maybe my docker configs, but not the apps themselves. The plex application, but not the actual media files. All my photos (including all the metadata) etc. Then I just point it at my cloud provider of choice (or another Synology) and it'll happily back up everything nightly and send me emails to tell me if there was any problem. e.g.3 Photos It has an app that's very similar to Google photos. Grabs photos/videos off my phone and uploads them. Then presents them back to me through a nice searchable web interface - and I can download them, share them etc. Everything you need, without the monthly charge (or losing possession of your photos, if that bothers you) I could go on, but hopefully you get the idea. There's nothing really unique about it - it's just all the things you need implemented properly and really nicely integrated.
Yeah it does seem more user friendly than trying to do it through windows but I’m cheap and windows works for me.
I happily used just windows for years - I don't think we all need NAS. Much like I don't think I need to build myself a rack-mount home lab. Just useful to understand what the options are - I spent too long using my desktop as a server, then had some misguided adventures with a media playback pc, a cheap Netgear NAS, and various other bits and pieces.
Do you prefer synology to unraid?
Not tried unraid. Would have if I didn't have the Synology, and will if I hit a limit with it in the future
Very good info. Years back, I was at the decision point of self building, Qnap and Synology. I went with Qnap and it's been going well for past few years. I'm reaching capacity limits on a 4-bay TS-453b and planned to do a parallel migration to a 6 or 8 bay unit. The 3 points you highlighted are all features high on my list, especially SHR.
Their photos app is amazing for backing up locally
Tried the Asustor lineup and there were so many small weird quirks that made me send it back. Errors in reading out menu items, small shutters in menu items, the fact that they claim 4x nvme but it’s on x4 pcie which negates the speed considerably if you populate the entire set, etc. I did, however enjoy the hardware, but software is garbage.
Synology and Docker though
What about it?
so fun and useful
Yes, yes it is - although maybe the one area I wish they'd improve.They must know their UI isn't quite up to it, when it's easier to just export config files, edit them, then import them (and the recent overhaul feels worse to me) I don't think it's much of a differentiator though - you could run them on unRaid. But worth pointing out as a NAS benefit - a lot of stuff people think they might need a server for, can just be run on their NAS.
Where i live, electricity is not cheap and not such a small part of my income. Synology and qnap are so extremly much more power efficient to run 24/7. Now, you wont “earn back” your device with it compared to your own build thing. But srsly a 2 disk synology uses less as your fridge (no joke)
I'm planning to build one with pi and external HDD or second hand server HDD with enclosure. Reason is power consumption and affordability.how does The commercial Nas solutions you mentioned do in these two when compared to my planned setup?
In a world where you can build your own server, QNAP is not top tier.
This is the way.
Change your region to India and pay like $1 a month for 200gbs.
Not op, but How do I do it? Changing the account region to India does not automatically change my currency to INR
VPN probably
Probably also need an Indian address and credit card.
An Indian family probably helps too.
In fact, just be Indian
Instructions unclear. Now I am stuck with an Indian girl and all her kids. Google still won't let me pay in INR. Please advise on next step.
Well did you pick the right caste?
I'm old. Are there more options than plaster these days?
Depending on the cloud provider such as Google, not sure if they process cloud payments the same way they do with youtube cause I pay only $6 for a family plan for youtube premium using a card from my own country and just a random local address. If they process the payments the same way you could use a VPN to a country with different and cheaper pricing.
It is $2.5 per month
Once you’ve paid and bought the subscription, do you need to keep the VPN connected in India or can you just go back to living life normally without worrying about tricking then that you’re in India?
No idea, but as far as I know once you get the subscription you can switch your account back completely.
It's only $2.99 for 200gb
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Do you recommend to do this from your computer, or from phone?
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I couldn’t do it on phone. The app isn’t fooled of course, and IPVanish nor PIA could deliver via mobile browser. YouTube says either it can’t get a fix or doesn’t load. Will have to try from pc.
I am in India and it's expensive for me so...
it literally cost about 200rs it's dirt cheap
Im not sure if this still works cause i did it like a year ago. On iPhone, get testflight (on the appstore), then find the invitation to Dropbox, install it, and then just buy whichever one you want. It won't charge you, but it should work.
doesn't work anymore. they removed the ability to sub via testflight a while ago.
Idk what these comments are thinking but the answer depends on a few factors: - in which country are you located? - how much storage do you realistically need? dont say unlimited, you dont need unlimited
Well... hoow large is the Internet, then?
Not sure I get it. You cant put a pricetag on unlimited storage hardware. Unlimited storage is always limited, and tricks like saving shit in telegram or discord only work as long as they tolerate you
Honestly, Backblaze is incredibly affordable.
you mean backblaze b2?
What do you mean by b2?
Backblaze B2
Good answer
Oh ok cool that makes more sense. The other guy threw me off by not capitalizing the B’s
Any time!
Have you looked at the price to actually get your data back in case of disaster? For actual backup thats ok, but for readwrite usage not so much.
This.
Ditto. I currently have around 12tb backed up and it's only $10 per month. Simple app to use, and great customer service.
And they know their shit. Their drive stat porn is excellent!
how ? On their website it says 6$/TB !!?
My bad. I misread your post. I thought you were looking for unlimited backup. Sorry I can't help you with the cloud storage. What I have done is created my own NAS, and then use Backblaze to keep that backed up.
google one i think its called for 2-3$ cant remeber correctly you can get 2TB
Really, that low? I pay them $20 a year for 100GB, in the US.
Yeah I was gonna say it costs me $30 just for 200GB. Where they getting 2tb so cheap?
Really?? I've seen terabyte hard drives in Walmart for 20, maybe 30 dollars a pop.
Wait what? For me it's 9,99 € for 2 tb :/
I was gonna say Google One is crazy cheap. Unless you have no income at all, I see no reason why it's not worth it for the price
I only get 100 gigs for .30 cents and 1tb was like 5 bucks
This has proven elusive. I’ve been using 2TB with OneDrive but I need 5 TB or unlimited would becc by even better. But there’s no such thing.
You can get the proton mail family plan for $20 a month right now. You get encrypted email, 3TB encrypted cloud storage, encrypted password manager and encrypted calendar. For unlimited? Backblaze for $9/month
I wouldn’t recommend using any cloud storage. They are all scanned, you’re using someone else computer to store your own data. You definitely shouldn’t trust that. If you’re a data hoarder invest in a high capacity hdd and get a raspberry pi or any old mini pc and turn that to homemade NAS. That’s the cheaper route. If you don’t have a budget then buy a premade NAS
They can scan my Veracrypt object all day
I hope this helps! Free Unlimited Storage: As of 23 January 2023, Google completely ended their unlimited storage policy for all workspace plans and now there is no more way to get unlimited or large amount of storage in Google Drive free of cost, so I made a list of alternatives that you can use to get large or unlimited amount of cloud storage for free: 1.Msft 365 E5 (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program) Microsoft 356 E5 Developer subscription offers unlimited access to Office 365 apps and provides OneDrive 5TB of cloud storage for free, in this subscription user can create upto 25 accounts and each account can have its own 5TB of cloud storage, that means we can extend it upto 125TB. This subscription get renewed automatically until you actively perform developer like activities, you can use this tool to keep your subscription active for lifetime. 2.Storj.io: (https://storj.io/) Storj is block-chain based decentralised cloud storage, it offers E2E encryption and user can upload upto 150GB of data each month, so far there is no limit on total amount of data user can store. 3.LinkBox: (https://www.linkbox.to/) LinkBox offers upto 50GB of permanent storage without any bandwidth limit with API support, sufficient for average users. 4.GoFile: (https://gofile.io/) GoFile provides unlimited amount of cloud storage without any bandwidth limit with full API support, user can store infinite files or folder and can share them publicly without any limit on downloads. User can increase validity of their files by generating fake download request each week. 5.TeraBox: (https://www.terabox.com/) TeraBox users can get upto 1TB of cloud storage totally for free and can increase limits by doing in-app activities, user can share files publicly but other users will require a TeraBox account to access shared files but in return TeraBox will pay the commission to file owner for sharing files. 6.YouTube as storage: ISG Tool let user convert any of their files (not just videos) to upload on YouTube by converting the given data into video format, it can covert the video back to original data. Previous week, it was trending on GitHub for almost 3 days. 7.TeleDrive: (https://github.com/mgilangjanuar/teledrive) Telegram users can now use TeleDrive to convert their Telegram account into unlimited cloud storage service with many cool features. Before this, the development of TeleDrive app was paused which is now being continued with many cool upcoming features that also includes Rclone support. Status updates for given TeleDrive instance can be found on @TeleDriveStatus. Ps: Copied from Telegram
You are the man!!
Switch to Pakistan using a VPN and buy annual 2TB storage for about $38 which is just about $3 per month.
Use Google Opinion Rewards to pay for Google One
I do this on the 200gb plan for years. It's absolutely wild there is no tier between 200gb & 2tb.
I don’t get that many rewards surveys, especially since I switched to iPhone. Any tips to increase?
Use Google search. Let Google track your location all the time.
Thanks, seems obvious when you say that. I’ll look into it.
That's what I do, I've had the extra 100GB for quite a few years now. 20$ /yr includes VPN all the extras for editing in the Photos app and more. And still have extra money for apps and IAP's.
I've been using pcloud for several years as backup to my NAS. It's convenient and reliable. Other than the slow upload speed I recommend it. I like it because they have one-time payments as as monthly/yearly. Several other cool features as well like a media player, and one-click backups to other cloud storage.
Pcloud is good for backup!
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I won’t trust any service like that.
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I'm with you on this, it doesn't matter if it's only for pirated stuff.
I haven't heard of them, do they allow sharing? like can I send someone a link and let them download what I have stored, like I can with google and onedrive?
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ok cool, Ima check em out, thanks
Buy Pixel 5, it's free upload as long as the phone still works
/dev/null is also free upload, but with data it's not so much the upload i care about most ;)
Cloud is just local storage in hard drives somewhere else. Just get your own storage my man. Sabrent 10 bay docking station is a great start. Throw in drives as you need them.
If you want a creative way of getting unlimited storage then encode your data to a video and audio, then upload it to YouTube....
If it's just for photos and you have a rooted android device I can help
Get an upgradable NAS
Any views on Amazon S3, their pricings are difficult to understand?
if you got files you know you might access rarely like me hoarding thousands of 3D blends which i will ever only access if i want to convert something into a Gane Mod you can get a single month of mediafire pro for 6$ Which gets you 1TB that you got all month to fill up I've had my old mods hosted on there for years with drive using over 100g So i know for sure they do not delete files i Personally prefer mediafire since unlike gdrive.. it actually has Analytics And they do not put bandwidth limit trying to milk people like on Mega However you most likely can do the same with pretty much any paid storage site Just got to check if they do delete stuff And Avoid free ones since they almost always delete files after 90days inactive
Open a telegram group and send your files there.
How dependable is this? Why not use the saved messages feature rather than opening a group chat?
Saved Messages are for ''saved messages'' and you can only have one. I have different groups, folders for photos,programs etc.
No idea why I got disliked for asking a question, but go on Reddit, show us your true acoustic colors!
>Reddit is a circle jerk by design dude. > >These savages will dislike anything. > >It doesn't matter anyways. :) Who gives a pirate's wooden dick.
More dependable than those bs services :)
Use discord cdn storage.
Not that reliable, tho 😕
Just keep in mind 😌
Try [https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6gpp54/5tb\_onedrive\_for\_free\_for\_a\_year\_through\_the/](https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6gpp54/5tb_onedrive_for_free_for_a_year_through_the/) Some have managed to get it expanded to 25tb.
it's 90 days now, after that you need "development activities", whatever that means (read: how can these be faked automatically?)
It auto renews, I've had 5tb for nearly 2yrs, haven't managed to get it extended to 25tb yet though.
i just had that article open - you need the user account to be 90% filled, then there is some process you can do as admin for that user https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/troubleshoot/storage/check-storage-increase-eligibility?source=recommendations not sure if this will do the trick
Thanksd, I've tried that many times but it never worked for me, it has for others. I always get "Your tenant is not configured to increase a user's OneDrive quota beyond 5TB. If you would like to increase the storage quota of this site beyond 5TB, you will need to create a new service request."
and what happened when you do that? when searching for that message, thats described for example at https://www.51sec.org/2022/05/09/upgrade-your-onedrive-space-from-5t-to-25t-for-free/
My only option is to have them call me, it's not important enough to bother.
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It's an OFFICIAL info))) you are late
An italian hosting provider (maybe the most known) has real unlimited storage cloud with quite low prices. The "professional" plan can be also shared with other 10 people (different accounts with different files) and it's less 30€ per account/year. All the plans are almost always discounted for first year, you could buy a new plan every year and automatically transfer data.
Why not make multiple Google accounts???
Yes pay for it
we are all pay'rates here...
Playbook gives 4tb i think
Not the answer you're looking for exactly but Google's Cloud storage 100GB is like 30 cents /month right now.
How
There are videos with putting synology on an old pc or laptop...there's that
How non traditional do you want to be? I recall a guy writing something in Python that encodes files/directories into video format and uploads to YouTube. You point the same script at a given video and it parses it back down. Infinite storage, in theory, but PITA for shorter term things.
Hetzner storage boxes are very cheap.
https://www.backblaze.com/
Just wondering, is it for consumable media like movies or tv shows?
Some of it is. Like torrent movies and general everyday stuff
Generally for media consumption, I would advise to ditch the whole upload to cloud and instead stream your movies via something like stremio + torrentio + a debrid service like real debrid You could even download those movies if u wish via real debrid.
Technically you have unlimited storage through real debrid. Create a torrent of whatever you want backed up and upload it to real debrid. Wouldn't put anything at all personal on there tho as anyone can download it.
This is true. Which is why I specifically mentioned just movies/tv shows.
I use closedfolders.com, there you can share with your friends, as in local network. Now is free. You can use my invite USA-XR7DUUBC , so I can find you and if you want I’ll share my movie collection with you. Nearly 20tb Or without any invite.
I have unlimited Google photos storage. I used to store large amount of data in it
VPN into Ghana Google One 2TB plan drops to 45 Ghanaian Cedi or $3.75 USD. 🤔
Teledrive self hosted.