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Google sells 2TB of space on Google drive for $10/month. I'm looking to move my data elsewhere.

Can anyone recommend a European based alternative with a roughly similar cost?

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hetzner storage box $4 per month for 1 TB and $13 for 5 TB.

Good lord it even supports BorgBackup.

Thank you very much!

Be aware that it's just a single server. It's not replicated across multiple hosts like in the case of google drive. So you definitely want a backup of that if it's your primary copy.

Good point, thank you.

It may actually be a good thing that it's not replicated. That forces me to really make sure I have a separate backup elsewhere.

US -> DE latency hurts though.

I used them when I was in europe but migrated away after I came stateside.

Not a problem for cold-storage/batch jobs of course.

Good to know, thank you!

I’m assuming bloopernova is based in Europe, so latency should be fine. At least they asked for an European-based Hoster (although that could also theoretically be for privacy reasons).

you should still be able to saturate your bandwidth with poor latency

Not unless the protocol you use accounts for that. Smb for instance is tragic.

True, I was thinking of backup tools which tend to consider poor latency in their design.

OneDrive space (through MS365 single or family licence) works out much cheaper in my country. I'm sure in the EU it is GDPR-compliant.

YMMV but OneDrive has been improving a lot. Their web photos browsing is comparable to Google Photos these days.

linux sync works?

It's supported by rclone.

> OneDrive

> I'm sure in the EU it is GDPR-compliant.

Sure ain't, especially not in Germany with the BDS.

Hetzner!

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