2026-04-22 00:44 UTC
Obviously cloud storage is convenient, but there's definitely better value in on-site backups.
That works out to $84/year, which is about what you could get a 1TB HDD for.
2 x 1TB HDDs in RAID will be much cheaper and reasonably safe in the long run.
1TB SSDs will be even better value due to their extended lifespans, and you'd get much better speeds.
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@Toribor@corndog.social 2026-04-22 00:58
I back up to local storage and then replicate offsite to S3 nightly. On-prem backups are great and cheap and fast and definitely plan A but a robust backup solution is going to require offsite storage of some sort. Object storage is one of the cheapest ways to do that for most situations, particularly for things that can't be replaced like photos.