Looking for Online Storage or Local Backup for several 4TB Hard Drives

[holygamer]

I have a fibre connection at 2MB/s upload speed. As I said before it doesn't breach their terms at all. Crashplan even boasted that they have 1 user who has 70TB uploaded and it was fine.

[watercooled]

Backblaze is another company to offer unlimited storage, provided it's connected to the one PC, so maybe another one to consider.

[dave87]

Backblaze is another company to offer unlimited storage, provided it's connected to the one PC, so maybe another one to consider.

This was what I was about to suggest -their storage pods are rather clever at keeping costs low

[holygamer]

Storage pods?

[watercooled]

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01...cloud-storage/

http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20...-more-secrets/

and so on.

[mikerr]

You could look at housing your own microserver, drives etc in a colocker:
http://www.colocker.com/

[Bonebreaker777]

...You should be able to get a 12TB NAS for around £1k if you don't need redundancy...

Synology DS414 + 4 x 4TB HDD = £780 with the option of RAID5 plus two USB 3.0 ports for extrenal HDDs.

TBH I expect the 'several 4TB hard drives' may breach the FUP of some 'unlimited' providers.

Also, do you have a 2MByte/s or 2Mbit/s upload speed? Because 300kByte/s transfer speed sounds about right for a 2Mbit/s upload speed.

At 2Mbit/s, you're looking at roughly 180 days *per drive*, provided upload speed doesn't dip. And your ISP would probably have something to say about that too TBH.

If you want to back up a ton of WORM data, either buying a load more HDDs, or perhaps even a tape drive system if you can find one cheap, would probably be a lot more realistic.

Aye, buy more HDD or a tape drive.

[b0redom]

Just out of interest, how are you storing those shows? My Humax PVR saves them in an extremely inefficient MPEG-2 (I think) format. Running them through handbrake compresses them to a tiny fraction of the original size. TBH though, most of the stuff I record is kids TV, there's very little I'd rewatch after seeing it once.