in the end, it is about use case.
if you want just a single provider for personal usage, idrive is a good choice and bonus, they sponsor rclone.
i guess i am very frustrated with idrive now. really, 23.75% in just one year!
and now i will vent...
some of what idrive posted is misleading, if not a straight up lies about wasabi. and idrive knows better.
hard to trust a company that does that. and even if true, just fine with me.
instead of a gimmick off 50% for the first year, just price things like most any other company on planet earth.
idrive keeps jacking their prices 20%+ year over year, year after year with no end in sight.
just wait until next year...
and i get nothing additional for that at all. no infrastructure upgrades, no transfers speed increases, no reduction in latency, no s3 policies for iam+buckets, no mfa delete, no session tokens and no ability to limit access to certain public static ip address and the list is endless...
and i have contacted tech support for wasabi and idrive, and trust me, there is a real significant difference.
in the end, idrive is just another reseller reselling minio.
might be ok for personal consumers, but commercial companies has real issues with all that.
i prefer to keep recent backups in wasabi, as when a disaster hits, i need to be able to saturate any internet connection, on demand, for downloads and must have low latency for veeam instant recovery.
in 6+ years, i have not had use that but i know it is there when i need it.
fwiw, in the forum, i have posted my test results.
as for pricing, keeping archived backups in aws deep glacier is as cheap as it gets.
so wasabi + aws is much better and cheaper then slow, very limited in features set idrive.
lol.