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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoIf price is main concern, you still have options, but you’ll need to be a lot more specific about what you need. For example:
- proprietary, hosted products like OneDrive, Amazon Drive, DropBox, and MEGA
- backups - NordLocker, Backblaze
- hosted and self-hosted cloud platforms - OwnCloud and NextCloud, use Backblaze B2 for storage
I’m doing the last one. I have NextCloud installed on my custom NAS (just openSUSE Leap with some drives) and am working on configuring B2 as a backup service.
Each of these are similar in price to Google Drive, but with a different feature set. Some are cheaper.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Sorry for not being more specific about what I need, I will explain it here.
With Google Drive, it gets assigned to a drive letter on my computer which is H: here and I’m not sure if any other Drive alternatives do that or not.
Right now, I currently pay $3 USD a month for 300 GBs of Google Drive space and they appear to go up with 5TBs for $25 USD a month and $10TBs for $50 USD a month.
I’m not interested in One Drive as that is Microsoft’s Shit.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Here are options for to mount Backblaze B2 as a drive. It’s $6/TB/month, and I think they allow <1TB, so for 300GB you’d pay ~$2/month. So I think they’re pretty competitive, but I’m not familiar with Google Drive’s terms. They’re certainly in the same ballpark.
KonalaKoala@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Well, for one thing, I would want to find out if there is a way to mount a remote drive service to a drive letter on a Windows machine like Google Drive so that I can have it as a backup option that would keep my stuff privacy, and not scraped by some AI LLM.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
And that’s exactly what that page discusses. It links three options you can try:
The first two are paid, the last is FOSS.