[plug] Looking for cheapest *australian* cloud storage (slow and cheap)

[DiffieHellman]

Hi Senectus,

Unfortunately, someone else's server is never cheap and the amount of rent seekers on Australia's internet means than somewhat less than 1TB of data can be expensive to transmit in some datacentre situations.

I suggest buying a 1TB HDD and writing a backup script (easy with bash+rsync+LUKS+cryptsetup) - at a set interval you would plug the drive in, run the script and then remove the drive (you can also
set it up to automatically run the script on insertation via udev, but that's not really worth the effort).

You would then store the drive offsite, or in a fire-resistant container (the costs will be less long term including the drive and container).


Generally you would use a SATA drive, although many servers/setups don't handle SATA hotswap well and thus would require a usb and for that I recommend a drive bay.

Most usb portable drives are SMR ones with a horrible usb-SATA converter - a SMR drive will work for backups until the drive fill ups and then it will slow down to 1MiB/s
(the only way to resolve that problem is to send TRIM commands that tells the drive that X blocks are unused, but of course most usb drives only partially implement ATA over usb
(i.e. you can set a drive password, but you can't unlock the drive with it, or remove that password), with most functions like TRIM implemented via a proprietary protocol)).

(I would like to update my email for the mailing list, but the site asks for a username and password).

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Kind Regards, DiffieHellman