My very small company (think me and one other person) collects video data for scientific analysis. We typically put the videos on external hard drives for each survey we do. A typical survey will run about 4TB in size. We always make a back up external drive so that we have two copies in case of loss etc. We do at least a dozen surveys a year.

We would like to back all of this up in the cloud. We will need to access the videos from the cloud from time to time but not on a frequent basis.

So first question, what do you fantastic data hoarders recommend as a good cloud storage service?

Second question, given the sheer size of the project, uploading from my business internet account (Spectrum/ northern Michigan) seems like a Sisyphean task. Can anyone recommend any way to increase upload speed (I am on max local program) or if there is a service that will upload rapidly for me if I send them hard drives?

Thanks in advance. Sorry for rookie questions.

  • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Backblaze offers $6/TB/month. They also offer a service called Fireball where they’ll send a 72 TB (I think) NAS to you. You upload everything you need and mail it back. It’s only like $40 plus a deposit.

  • semtexzv@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Well, at that scale, price is a concern.

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    With limited outflows, S3 or Backblaze might be a good option.

    I personally use enterprise Google workspace account (12 bucks per 5TB/Month, unlimited outflow). For uploads, I have custom software that does partial uploads to Google Drive correctly. There definitely are others.

  • Icy-Goose4703@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yes, IDrive works here, they’ll send you a hard drive with their service called IDrive express, Good product and pricing too…so every backup after your first upload via idrive express will be incremental…