Own hardware is always cheaper in the long run
True, but S3 offers you extremely high availability and security for a quite fair price, and not everyone wants to immediately self host on their own hardware.
Cheaper to use Backblaze b2
Indeed, the article was written with Backblaze B2 as the S3-compatible storage used.
Or Wasabi
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I stick data I will almost certainly never access again on glacier deep archive. Dirt cheap. Good place to escrow data.
Wasabi have similar pricing to glacier, but without the limitation
Why should I use JuiceFS instead of rclone though?
Use rclone
I think rclone has somewhat bad latency, at least from prior experience (albeit with Google Drive). JuiceFS seems to cache locally and can run my Immich instance, etc. With pretty good performance
In Canada, external hard drives of 8-20TB capacity show up every now and then for a rate of C$20/TB (US$14.50) so it won’t take more than 3 months to offset that cost. As a backup, online s3 storage might be reasonable.
E - Speak of the devil: https://lemmy.ca/post/23948873
Guys, read the article first! At least try, at the beginning it says:
Unless you self-host at home on your own NAS
