I'll go above and beyond... jottacloud or uloz.to for personal backup of large files?
I tried both and they were both extremely slow. 5-10 MB/s max.
Jottacloud sent me this table of how they throttle speeds:
But in my testing with a free 5GB account I was getting only 20-30 mbps – on a 4 Gbps connection. Very bad.
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What are you currently using or recommend? I have something like 6TB, mainly of videos and family photos.
Today I've been split between GDrive, Dropbox and Onedrive, but it's a bit expensive to maintain them all. I wanted to focus on something like archive backup in a single solution.
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That's odd maybe it was the time of day or the location as in where you are, and where jottacloud is, as I have been getting the quoted speeds in that table you posted.
We use two state-of-the-art server-centers one located in Oslo, the other one in close to Stavanger, Norway.
For 6TB I'd recommend JottaCloud Unlimited personally, I have 10TB there currently. and temporarily 48TB on idrive e2. Going to move this to local over the year and then either cancel it or reduce the amount of storage.
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"quoted speed" ? What is the "Unlimited" speed you were getting with <5TB?
Agreed, Jottacloud is the best option for stuff like personal photos and videos. The data doesn't change, it doesn't matter if the upload speed gets slower as you only do it once. You can't beat it for that volume of static data.
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Thanks to all you friends @ZeroG @AeroMaxx @aestetix
I went with Jottacloud for my purpose, thank you sup!
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I never actually checked. Maybe @jeffpascoal can tell us what speeds he is able to upload at when below 5TB?
I'm currently moving photos and videos to JottaCloud, at around 45-50MB/s
I have 700Mb of internet bandwidth
When it's over 5Tb, I'll post more results, friends.
Edit: I forgot to mention, I live in Brazil.
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It's $540/year, that's the catch.
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But it's really un-throttled and un-limited?
We are a group of 9 users, happy to pay $15/mo for unlimited.
Has anyone used this plan?
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If you start using Box as an unlimited storage they will kick you out very promptly:) Plenty of posts on this forum about Box unlimited attempts fiasco.
To be fair for them it is collaboration service and not online storage dump.
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As @kapitainsky said, they'll shut you down.
Dealing with them was absurdly aggravating.
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If you're talking about iDrive E2, I tried it and it's not suitable for streaming high bitrate 4K, it slows down way too much way too often for that. But of course it's good for archive and backup.
I've tried a few cloud storage services myself. They're not exactly unlimited, but they all offer more than 1TB, which works for my needs. Here's a rundown of the pricing and my experience with each:
- IDrive: $9.95/month for 5TB (up to 100TB). I haven't tested the 100TB option, but backups can be a bit slow. Overall, it's pretty secure.
- Sync: $6 to $20/month (1TB to unlimited). Perfect for businesses.
- Mega: $10.81/month for 2TB (up to 16TB). The file transfer is somewhat limited, and the overall experience is just alright.
- TeraBox: $3.49/month for 2TB (1TB free for all users). I'm currently on the free version and feel good. The 1TB is more than enough for me. No security issues so far, but there are quite a few ads—fair enough for a free service.
- Onedrive: $6.99/month for 1TB with Microsoft 365. The file-syncing and backups could use some work, but otherwise, it's good.
Uloz.to modified their plans and cut all of the storage limits in half. Prices at least seem the same for now. I wouldn't be surprised if they kept making cuts though. They also got rid of their yearly plan
and so it begins.
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