Storage Options
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Storage For Nerds (Object Storage):
- Amazon S3
- Very big name
- Can be expensive
- Flexible storage tiers
- Backblaze B2
- Very affordable
- No egress fees (restrictions apply)
- Long standing company
- Not many locations (EU and US)
- Cloudflare R2
- 10 GB of Free Storage
- Free Egress
- Cloudflare’s built in CDN
- Storj
- Built in CDN
- Built in encryption
- Crypto Currency Tie-in (non-enterprise storage nodes operators paid via STORJ coin)
- S3 Compatible and Fast
- iDrive e2
- Most affordable
- No operations fees
- Reliability from personal experience hasn’t been great
- Their support can take days to respond
- Tons of locations
- DigitalOcean Spaces
- Free CDN
- Flat Rate Pricing
- 1 TB Bandwidth Included
- Akamai(formerly Linode)
- Enterprise name/Long standing Pro-Linux company
- 1 TB Bandwidth Included
- Flat Rate Pricing
Storage for Normal Fuzzies (Classic Cloud Storage):
- Dropbox
- Very old name in the business
- 2 GB Free storage
- 2 TB at 119.88/year
- sync.com
- Built in encryption
- 5 GB Free Storage
- 2 TB at 96/year
- pCloud
- Seemed sketch… but they have been around a long time
- Several reviews show they have been reliable
- End 2 End Encryption is an additional charge
- 10 GB Free Storage
- Lifetime Plans (Fine Print reads 99 years)
- 500 GB - 199 USD
- 2 TB - 399 USD
- 10 TB - 1190 USD
- Annual Plans
- 500 GB - 49.99 USD
- 2 TB - 99.99 USD
- Microsoft OneDrive
- Is bundled with Microsoft Office
- 1 TB Storage + MS Office Personal (69.99/year)
- Mega
- Has a rocky past, but recent years reputation and new owners cleaned up house
- 20 GB Free Storage
- Limited Storage Transfer each month
- 2 TB Storage at 109.21/year
- Google Drive
- Well my big con on this one is I don’t like Google that much
- They have been known to delete users files if they contain content they don’t like
- 15 GB Free Storage
- 100 GB at 23.88/year
- 200 GB at 35.88/year
- 2 TB at 119.88/year