OVH's hubiC offers 10TB storage for €50/year

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https://hubic.com/en/contracts/Contrat_hubiC_2014.pdf

The bandwidth is limited to 10 Mbit/s upstream and downstream.

Still, it's good to have a cheap offsite backup to complement a local one.

It would take roughly 900 days to upload the data at that speed.

I think you're off by an order of magnitude.

10TB == 10,000GB == 10,000,000MB

10Mbit == 1.25MB

10000000/(1.25 * 60 * 60 * 24) = 92.6 days

Time to upload is probably not a problem, you gradually add to it over time. Time to download all the data in the event of a disaster is the bigger issue. There aren't a lot of use cases where you'd need all the data back ASAP but if you have such a case, don't rent this storage.

Great timing. I have just decided to move away from Google Drive - had all sorts of problems with it in the past months - including sync conflicts, connection problems and crashes.

File storage and sync market get commoditized. E.g. for Dropbox pro with 1 TB $99/year + taxes. So this is roughly 20 times cheaper.

It uses OpenStack Swift so it is compatible with a bunch of existing tools.

Although it requires a prior additional authentication step with OAuth 2.0. Cyberduck just added interoperability for in version 5.0.1.

Tested it Cyberduck from Belgium.

Upload speed: 1.4MB/s. Close to my maximum of 1.6MB/s.

Download speed: 1.3MB/s. Far from my maximum of 15MB/s.

This could be good for NAS backups.

Considering the agreement jankey linked to above says bandwidth is limited to 10Mbit/s (1.25MByte/s) you're getting "bonus" throughput.

I agree, offsite back up of local storage is a good use case.

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