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Hi Anandtech,
I'm trying to get some recommendations on cloud storage providers and how much I should be paying. I have a fairly simple 2-bay QNAP NAS with encrypted 3 TB NAS drives that functions as our family's primary backup. All of our Windows PCs have File History turned on and each PC has its own separate permissions and backup folder on the NAS. In addition, all of our media files (home videos and photos, including RAWs from DSLRs) are stored on the NAS.
The NAS itself syncs my personal Documents folder with my personal Google Drive account, so files I access pretty often are always in sync. However, for everything else (currently 1.5TB of PC file histories, downloads, photos, videos, etc.) I decided to setup a Google Cloud Storage nearline backup. I set it up so that files that change are updated no more than once a month (including on delete) in order to save money on the access/transactional charges. However, the storage alone runs roughly $15-$16 a month for the storage pool. I'd like to get that way down--under $5/month ideally since I only plan to use it in the event of a complate NAS failure (i.e. fire, theft etc.) and typically these services would charge you more on the recovery side should you need it.
Is there a better, more cost-effective "cold" storage solution that anyone here would recommend? I know CrashPlan is no longer an option, and a bunch of folks use Carbonite or Backblaze but I don't know what customization or flexibility those services offer for syncing from a NAS vs. from a PC. Thoughts?
I'm trying to get some recommendations on cloud storage providers and how much I should be paying. I have a fairly simple 2-bay QNAP NAS with encrypted 3 TB NAS drives that functions as our family's primary backup. All of our Windows PCs have File History turned on and each PC has its own separate permissions and backup folder on the NAS. In addition, all of our media files (home videos and photos, including RAWs from DSLRs) are stored on the NAS.
The NAS itself syncs my personal Documents folder with my personal Google Drive account, so files I access pretty often are always in sync. However, for everything else (currently 1.5TB of PC file histories, downloads, photos, videos, etc.) I decided to setup a Google Cloud Storage nearline backup. I set it up so that files that change are updated no more than once a month (including on delete) in order to save money on the access/transactional charges. However, the storage alone runs roughly $15-$16 a month for the storage pool. I'd like to get that way down--under $5/month ideally since I only plan to use it in the event of a complate NAS failure (i.e. fire, theft etc.) and typically these services would charge you more on the recovery side should you need it.
Is there a better, more cost-effective "cold" storage solution that anyone here would recommend? I know CrashPlan is no longer an option, and a bunch of folks use Carbonite or Backblaze but I don't know what customization or flexibility those services offer for syncing from a NAS vs. from a PC. Thoughts?
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