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[Gamers Nexus] "Google is Getting Worse," ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs (youtu.be)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

If price is main concern, you still have options, but you'll need to be a lot more specific about what you need. For example:

direct Drive replacements - OneDrive and Amazon Drive
just file storage - 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. It's more expensive than Drive, but it's also more versatile (streams movies to TV, use as Linux package cache for faster upgrades, etc).

Each of these are similar in price to Google Drive, but with a different feature set. Some are cheaper.

[–] KonalaKoala 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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, if not cheaper, but it depends on your egress and Google Drive's policies around that (how much you download from their service).

[–] KonalaKoala 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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, and it claims each can mount Backblaze B2 as a Windows drive. I haven't tried any of them, so YMMV.