Cloud storage (aka Onedrive will suck so need to find something else)

[akira]

Could be worth looking into the cloud servers from 1&1, I've used them before and been satisfied

 

[Frick]

I got so tired of this I dropped it for a bit there, but thanks for the discussion!

Google drive sounds perfect tbh....

Is this primarily for backup purposes?

If so a NAS syncing to AWS S3 is probably the cheapest option. Dropbox uses S3 as it's storage back-end and AWS have it synchronising all over the world for true resiliency. You can also setup retention policies to auto-archive content into Glacier and save even further, just bear in mind glacier has a lead time before you can access anything. It also supports versioning and all sorts of cool things. It will end up much cheaper than Google's Compute engine, however you will need to either address it with API calls or an application. S3 browser is a great free tool. Also Synology have in-built applications for this kind of thing.

You may even be able to setup something like multcloud as the front-end.

That the files are backed up (that sounds so wrong) is just a bonus, it's mainly a dumping ground for stuff I want/need access to in various places, and sharing large files (mainly proper Windows .isos to relatives). I do have hardware lying around, I could make a decent fileserver, but the main problem is where I would put it. I live in a single room apartment (the kitchen is seperate and huge though) and I can't think of a place where it wouldn't annoy me. Except for some cupboard in the kitchen (which contains mostly electronics and computers anyway ), but then I'd have to have cat6 running there and I have grown so incredibly tired of all cables. Wireless would probably be out as if I did this it would serve as local storage as well, so I'd need it to be wired. In short, anything requiring a machine running 24/7 is probably out. For now anyway, if I can afford to build a fanless system it might be interesting, but right now it would probably be an old Dell tower or something, requiring active cooling.

Anyway, they seem to have backtracked a bit. I get to keep my 30GB's and that should be enough. I am tempted to get the subscription anyway just to give me room to expand, but I'll probably make do with 30GB. For now anyway. If I need serious space I will probably do some sort of server/NAS.

 

[Athlon2K15]

https://preview.onedrive.com/bonus/