Cloud storage for music and film

[Hex Triplet]

So, if you could humour an out of touch, old bastard who doesn't use any kind of streaming service whatsoever, and who has about 3Tb of music precariously stuffed into a couple of external harddrives which are probably about to expire any day soon, what is the best way of storing all that shit in a cloud? I know nothing of the cloud. What are the best cloud services? Is it Google? Do I pay? Would like to know as I am getting anxious about losing all of my creaky, rusty mp3s to the ravages of time. Many thanks.

[touchingcloth]

Microsoft 365 Family gets you 6TB of OneDrive storage for £80/year.

You'd probably be better off buying a couple of 4TB external drives for about the same cost and using one as your primary storage and the other as your backup.

[Hex Triplet]

Microsoft 365 Family gets you 6TB of OneDrive storage for £80/year.

Thanks, I'll look into this.

You'd probably be better off buying a couple of 4TB external drives for about the same cost and using one as your primary storage and the other as your backup.

yeah, I have been replacing HDs / using old ones as storage for a while, I just worry about physical decay/damage. Thought maybe uploading everything to a cloud will keep it 'safe'.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Office/Dropbox etc is good for simplicity but if you plan on using Plex or something there's an Amazon s3 clone called Wasabi that charges $6/TB/Month with no egress fees making it an ideal cloud store for your own streaming service if that's your bag.

https://chris.theserenos.com/blog/2019/05/28/host-plex-on-aws-and-wasabi/

Although at that sort of money you can probably get a buy in on someone else's massive plex server and have access to all the new films/tv coming out.