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Well, yeah, the idea of individual drives is great, but in practice I've had a lot of drives die.

This was mostly a cost comparison I wanted to show, as the solutions of rolling your own set up at home vs a cloud set up are definitely very different.

At 10TB, you're paying $600/year on B2, a price at which you could outright buy two 10TB drives and stick them in a larger NAS setup with ZFS or a simpler RAID-1 array.

That's reasonable. Alternatively, I'm using Arq[0] (locally encrypted before upload, uploads to tons of different services, I'm using AWS S3 and Google Storage) so I'm paying ~$7/month for about 40G stored. And I don't have to worry about local drives dying or being stolen. Just another option.

[0] https://www.arqbackup.com

> locally encrypted before upload, uploads to tons of different services

https://www.duplicati.com does that for free being open-source thing, all platforms supported.

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