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That would be super attractive to me if my ISP didn't have data caps. My personal archive is ~40TB of drives in my primary desktop. Even disregarding empty space and duplicates, it would take four years or more to upload it onto a cloud service without running over my data cap.


I have symmetric gigabit ethernet and have a few TB backed up to deep archive, but if I wanted to backup and restore everything the data transfer pricing is insane, it would be $1800 for 20TB. This really is the only thing AWS is keeping artificially high to facilitate lock-in.


Can you pay to remove the cap? If you can you could pay the extra to remove the cap for however long it'd take to upload everything.


Another option is to drive the data to some place with a fast internet connection and do the upload over the course of a day or two (one time I asked a friend if I could bring my laptop and a hard drive to his university classroom and plug in for an afternoon (I was lucky to know a few of the IT folks there), and I got 940 Mbps upload. It was like heaven!


Only at ten dollars per fifty gigabytes, which is obviously impractical at this size.




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