Fastest cloud storage solution?

[yhelothar]

I have a flight in 8hrs and I need to backup around 100GB of data.
I signed up for google drive last night but the thing is slow af. I get around 2MB/s transfer rate. On speedtest.net, I get 300mbps transfer rate which equates to 37.5MB/s. This should transfer 100GB in 45minutes.

But on 2MB/s, it'll take over a day and it's not going to finish in time. What service could I use that will allow me to finish in time? Dropbox? Maybe a webhost?

 

[freeskier93]

I'm going to take a guess and say your 300mbps "transfer rate" is your download speed and not your upload speed. You're limited by your upload speed, and 2MBps (16mbps) upload sounds about right for a typical asymmetric connection.

 

[lxskllr]

A thumb drive & encryption would be faster. You could use a microsd card and hide it if you're going to hostile territory.

 

[yhelothar]

I'm going to take a guess and say your 300mbps "transfer rate" is your download speed and not your upload speed. You're limited by your upload speed, and 2MBps (16mbps) upload sounds about right for a typical asymmetric connection.

A thumb drive & encryption would be faster. You could use a microsd card and hide it if you're going to hostile territory.

Yeah it's a lot more expensive though. :\

 

[Red Squirrel]

Shove stuff on an encrypted hard drive and mail it to yourself at your new destination. Perhaps do an encrypted raid 0 volume, mail each drive to two different locations. Like PO boxes or something. You could take a chance with USB sticks or laptop etc in the luggage but they might ask you for the decryption key and to mount the volume so they can copy the files. Either you give it to them, or you spend years in court battling it out.

As for online storage, fastest way at this point might be to rent a dedicated server from a place like OVH. The transfer rate is going to be practically guaranteed. Only thing, at this point, you will be setting off red flags since the government will see tons of data being transfered by you very shortly before you leave the country.

Idealy you should have planned this better ahead of time and have the data online and ready to go months before you leave.

But for only 100GB of data you're probably safe.

Don't forget to scrub any drives that you bring with you, or don't bring them at all. will take more than 8 hours to properly scrub any hard drives.

Are you moving out or is this a vacation? I would avoid brining data in first place if you can.

 

[MrSquished]

You waited too long. And what are you bringing with you, child porn?

 

[yhelothar]

Shove stuff on an encrypted hard drive and mail it to yourself at your new destination. Perhaps do an encrypted raid 0 volume, mail each drive to two different locations. Like PO boxes or something. You could take a chance with USB sticks or laptop etc in the luggage but they might ask you for the decryption key and to mount the volume so they can copy the files. Either you give it to them, or you spend years in court battling it out.

As for online storage, fastest way at this point might be to rent a dedicated server from a place like OVH. The transfer rate is going to be practically guaranteed. Only thing, at this point, you will be setting off red flags since the government will see tons of data being transfered by you very shortly before you leave the country.

Idealy you should have planned this better ahead of time and have the data online and ready to go months before you leave.

But for only 100GB of data you're probably safe.

Don't forget to scrub any drives that you bring with you, or don't bring them at all. will take more than 8 hours to properly scrub any hard drives.

Are you moving out or is this a vacation? I would avoid brining data in first place if you can.

I'm moving out and I'm carrying my desktop with me. I have a lot of stuff on a mechanical drive. I'm taking the drive out of my desktop and putting it in a foam padded box that'll go in my carry on. But I would like to have a backup to be safe.

You waited too long. And what are you bringing with you, child porn?

Poverty porn. Some explicit content from the slums of India

http://astro.myftp.biz/dharavi

 

[Exterous]

I can't speak to the speeds available without business agreements but we've had good luck with AWS S3 and Backblaze

 

[Murloc]

Shove stuff on an encrypted hard drive and mail it to yourself at your new destination. Perhaps do an encrypted raid 0 volume, mail each drive to two different locations. Like PO boxes or something. You could take a chance with USB sticks or laptop etc in the luggage but they might ask you for the decryption key and to mount the volume so they can copy the files. Either you give it to them, or you spend years in court battling it out.

As for online storage, fastest way at this point might be to rent a dedicated server from a place like OVH. The transfer rate is going to be practically guaranteed. Only thing, at this point, you will be setting off red flags since the government will see tons of data being transfered by you very shortly before you leave the country.

Idealy you should have planned this better ahead of time and have the data online and ready to go months before you leave.

But for only 100GB of data you're probably safe.

Don't forget to scrub any drives that you bring with you, or don't bring them at all. will take more than 8 hours to properly scrub any hard drives.

Are you moving out or is this a vacation? I would avoid brining data in first place if you can.

they really check harddrives at airports?

 

[Red Squirrel]

they really check harddrives at airports?

I imagine it's mostly random as they would not have time to search everyone. But you hear lot of stories about people being detained and all their data searched, so it's not something I'd want to take a chance on myself.

I seem to often be randomly selected but I tend to travel as light as possible. Carry on bag only with clothes and stuff, and phone with very basic configuration being the only electronic item I have. Default background, etc. But this was in Canada so it's more lax here. You can even have a conversation with the CATSA (our version of TSA) and it's all cool.

I'd probably consider leaving the phone home if I was traveling through the states though, but I really don't keep much on my phone.

 

[Exterous]

they really check harddrives at airports?

For a DoD project we were working on we had to talk to some FBI agents about overseas travel with data. The mentioned several countries where thumbdrives\hard drives were detained regularly from US based travelers and that it was not uncommon for unauthorized USB access was detected during luggage screening while the traveler was 'patted down' (Or while in hotel safes for that matter)

 

[yhelothar]

Hmmmm perhaps speedtest.net is a sham with the speeds only being available for very short distances. I just tried another site and it's comparable to the speeds I'm getting with google drive.
http://speedof.me/

 

[Rifter]

Hmmmm perhaps speedtest.net is a sham with the speeds only being available for very short distances. I just tried another site and it's comparable to the speeds I'm getting with google drive.
http://speedof.me/

Ive herd of this happening in poorly setup networks(ISP's)

If your ISP hosts a speedtest server, and its inside their network, and you obviously are inside there network, then transfer speeds to it may not be limited correctly based on your internet plan it depends on how they setup their traffic shaping/limiting. You may have full speed inside your ISP's network and just be limited when you exit their network down to speeds set out in your plan.