I came across another provider offering some pretty cheap storage. The servers are NOT US based, so my upload speeds sucked at about 5 MB/s per file on a 5gbs symmetrical fiber connection. People in other regions might get better speed.
uloz.to/koupit-disk
They offer 200TB of storage space for $64.00/USD/month. No file size restrictions or anything.
The GOOD news is that uloz is already in the Rclone 1.67 beta, so it is currently supported and works with mounting as well. They don't seem to limit the download speeds tho, as I can watch a 60gb mkv with no stuttering. It will be officially out in next version, but if you want to try it now, you can grab the latest beta for your OS and test. I paid a whole $5.00 dollars for 10TB to test speeds.
If you want to try the beta; https://beta.rclone.org/
( Scroll to the very bottom below the folders and click the current release version for your OS )
This is AFAIK a really good price, and they even give a discount for yearly payments so that price ends up being $52/mo for those 200TB... this means $0.26/TB/mo, which is way cheaper than anything I've seen so far. And they have smaller plans (from 10TB up), for those same $0.26/TB/mo.
my upload speeds sucked at about 5 MB/s per file
That's the gotcha, I guess... this almost certainly means throttling
Anyway, if by "per file" you mean that uploading eg 6 files in parallel would get a total upload speed of 6*5= 30MB/s, then it's certainly viable, at least for my use case!
I just got a free account there and will do some testing too.
But perhaps @mvjunkie simply doesn't consider this much of a restriction, if at all. I mean, 3X total storage would allow to upload the entire capacity (200TB) and then download it twice, in a single month.
In my specific use case, I've never even come close to that, so that would not be a problem for me, and I suspect not for @mvjunkie or the majority of other people either.
Please note that's not "unlimited" storage, just "extremely cheap", so it's a very different kind of grail
They will enforce that policy and some arbitrary ones in 3, 2, 1....
They certainly could (and apparently they already throttle uploads at 5MB/s/file, as noted), but let's wait and see.
Even for "unlimited", it took no less than 5 years for Google and Dropbox and the others to go through that "3, 2, 1" count of yours, and 5 years is a nice amount of time to be able to pay only $0.26/TB/mo for a remote copy of my data.
Will do, but keep an eye out for @mvjunkie's posts, as he is testing it in full capacity (ie, with a paid account) and therefore his results are going to be much more complete and more reliable than mine.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/183ga3q/the_biggest_czech_pirate_direct_downloading_site/ it seems like they're around for a long time but they were a file share service mostly used for piracy. Last year they were shot down due to some EU regulation. They've reopend as a personal storage service for a while now. I think they have massive empty/unused storage and they're selling it cheap to make use of it asap.
Uploads don't count towards your bandwidth threshold, only downloads. So uploading 200TB, you will still have 600TB of bandwidth.
They certainly do throttle, I did a transfer of =8 of 2TB. Some files were going at 8-11MB/s, some were at 1MB/s, but it took me 24 hours to upload 2TB with an average of 35-50 MB/s total on 8 transfers. I tried increasing the transfers by 1,2,3 etc trying to gain more speed, but it stayed around the same speed even with 20 upload streams. I would say it averaged about 40 MB/s with 8 transfers, and like I said, took 24 hours for 2TB.
I'm still testing, but I guess the moral here is, what do you expect for such cheap storage. I can watch full remuxes just fine, so that's the only thing that matters to me. As far as limits, I mean they don't limit the file size(s). I have a couple 90GB "isos" and they uploaded fine.
The playback is fine tho, while I think there throttling them as well, I CAN stream a full movie without any lag or stuttering. If you try to download a file manually, each one would start out fast, then slowly come down to about 10MB/s per file. So, I'm sure for as cheap as they are offering storage, they are certainly putting caps on there to minimize abuse.
Fair point. However I KNOW (not just guess) why it took G so long to kill it off. They could afford to lose money on a massive scale for a very long time to achieve their goal of becoming the biggest cloud provider. And it was an investment that was supposed to pay off down the line (and it did and does). The dealer and free sample coke kind of thing. So did MS and AMZN by the way. AMZN just decided a few years earlier that their business needs to be more viable sooner and killed off unsustainable products. G didn't have to, they had the money and will.
The Czech one, if true that they're just using their exiting paid for equipment from illegal file sharing times, will implode and quickly. The current pricing covers their rent and energy cost and some overhead and pay but certainly not hardware maintenance and upkeep. So once this "old" equipment is used....you see where I'm going with this?
To be fair, this is just an educated guess. Shouldn't keep anyone from using them or feeling happy that there is an affordable large storage solution. Just keep it in the back of your mind. It takes time and effort to upload and maintain all that data. Even if just for a backup of a backup.
Did you successfully access uloz with rclone beta?
I just get Failed to create file system for "uloz:": Error 90001 (401): Invalid authorization token. Please provide correct X-Auth-Token api key header.
Labor costs are low in Czech.
Median:
Mexiko 1350$ per Month
Czech 1470€ per Month
Also energy is there only half as expensive as in Germany or Netherlands and afaik also peering is quite cheap.
Additionally i have seen they use ads in their backend.
And as mentioned they use old disks from their filesharing and pornodownloading-business.
This might work actually, at least for europeans.
I do not think they will offer you object storage (and peering) in US for that price point.
In the end, when you compare it to google enterprise, which offer basically 100TB (for 5 users after 3 extensions) for four times the price, - and the data is mirrored multiple times around the globe, i really think this ain't too unrealistic.
Just another note here on the API, yes you can use that public one. Once you buy a subscription to any tier, you can email support and ask for a dedicated API token for your account only. However, switching from the public one to the private one had zero impact on my upload speeds. But, then again, I'm in the US, so peering to the Czech Republic is probably not great, and your individual experience may vary.
No one really knows what will happen to ANY provider. However, for cheap storage, I don't mind using them to mirror one of my other online storage accounts for backup purposes. I wouldn't make this my "primary" backup destination. However, to backup another online backup, fits perfectly into my budget. I've been hoarding for too long, and you can never be to careful with your data
Thanks! I hopped on this immediately. Have moved to onprem but want 1 backup (ideally 3-2-1 but too much data) for the big chunks of data. Used dropb0x but they have gone to sh*t and started one sided reneging of the agreement.
So far so good. Speed seems to settle at around 50MiB/s. On a 1GB line and I've seen it max out at times. Transfered about 500GB so far.
I'm in Europe so that probably helps. Not the mainland though but Nordics so there is water in between but usually good speeds to the continent
