Rsync.net is a cloud storage service that gives you an empty UNIX filesystem to do whatever you like with.
They've been around since 2001 and have generally been viewed as quite reliable.
The URL includes a code, which IS NOT MINE, it appears on the Reddit ad I saw.
Because lifetime.
Whose?
obviously theirs
Wow, 2TB USB drive is ~$100. And you can change it every few years. This is way too expensive.
Where are you finding 2TB usb drives for that low nowadays?
These are scam drives with spoofed drive info that will rewrite your data as soon as it exceeds actual capacity (likely 16-32GB nowadays, back in the day it was closer to 4-8GB)
Plus even if you flash the correct capacity, you're better off storing anything of value on any other drive. These are highly unreliable even with correct capacity
@artcvan: Yep, my bad :)
Just clicked on 1st result.
Similar https://www.centrecom.com.au/western-digital-elements-2tb-25…
Find it amusing that you're claiming this. 2TB external HDD is already roughly $120-150 nowadays, no way a 2TB USB drive would be that price.
Lifetime? Whose lifetime?
These are never sustainable. It’s impossible to maintain the infrastructure as well as upgrading features for $480 with no further payments
depends, if someone paid me lifetime to store 32GB of their stuff in 2002
or 8192KB in 1992 I'd imagine even after costs, considering any interest i may have earned on the upfront cash, i'd probably have a moderate return.
32GB storage costs today costs nothing, we cant really say 1TB would cost in 10-25 years
The problem however Lifetime is a term i wish would be removed from marketing and contracts
*Lifetime in the minds of consumers means end of our life, Age Today to day of death (30-40years)
*More astute society the expectation is avg living age ( of 79 Years) - Even arguing the guarentee should be transferable to children
*Business the Lifecycle of the product 3-10 Years
Perpetual does not mean "Never Ending": In cases like BMS Computer Solutions v AB Agri, courts have ruled that "perpetual" can simply mean "operating without a fixed time limit" but still subject to termination clauses in the contract.
This case 'Lifetime' storage is more aligned to an availability service like software activations meaning Lifetime is measured by how many years the host wishes to keep the server powered on. And that could be powered off at any time or day,
Server Shutdowns: Generally, unless explicitly promised in the contract, vendors are often not legally obligated to maintain activation servers forever. Once the server is gone, a legally owned license may become technically unusable
Why anyone would pay for this 2TB lifetime deal when 5d glass storage is just round the corner?
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I am not trusting this at all. As others have pointed out - whose lifetime? This model is not sustainable at all. It’s far cheaper to get multiple redundant hard drives. Also I am comparing a lifetime storage of 2TB for ~A$665 vs A$10 (₹749) pm i pay for icloud. Assuming the A$665 sits in offset account saving ~6% interest towards my mortgage if i go icloud route, breakeven point is 8-9 years.
Obviously it's their lifetime unless you die sooner. They are definitely not going to provide you with product after they cease to exist.
The model, as an only product, isn't sustainable but they do have subscription based products so you have to look at the company as a whole.
Given that they've been doing this since 2001 I'm tending to think that they may know what they are doing.
Your comment about multiple redundant HDs is fair but this is a different beast. More convenient (don't need to find multiple places to store your hds, cycle them (or update them all depending on how you wish to do your storage), or fiddle with them from multiple points of entry.
That said: companies do fail so if you like cloud storage you need to figure out how much you'd pay on subscription, where the ROI is and if the company is likely to survive at least that far.
Ok but what guarantees I have that this product will have ongoing support and security updates? What incentives they have once they take your money and deliver the product in the current state and then just do a code freeze? Multiple companies eg Adobe/ 1Password have offered one time “lifetime” purchase and later stopped supporting newer OS to push their subscription anyway? There’s also a flexibility to switch providers argument.
As near as I can tell rsync.net does not write or control the client. It works with any ssh client you wish to use. Essentially you use what you want to use under the OS you use. As long as it speaks ssh it should be fine.
What is under their control is their end and if they wish to be sloppy about security and maintenance of their side of the equation then they'll get themselves massively hacked and that may well wind up being the end of their run.
It’s far cheaper to get multiple redundant hard drives
Sure. But the point is off-site, cloud storage.
These guys have been doing this, and other subscription models for many years. It is expensive, because they are not intending to go bankrupt (as many others have done offering cheaper enticing plans) in the near term.
2TB of iCloud is $AUD15/m (at the moment) - so will cost as much as this in 3.5 years. My bet would be that rsync.net is still going longer than Apple lets you get away paying lower amounts in alternative currencies.
Considering I'm curently paying for Backblaze B2, this is about 3 years of that service for 2TB. I'm not using 2TB yet, but this may work out better in the long-term.
Does anyone have any recommendations for something better? I want to make a remote copy of digital photos and videos. Hetzner's 1TB plan seems to be recommended a lot.
Self host zimaos?
FWIW rsync.net has a good reputation. A colleague I worked with 10 years ago was using it and swore by it. I can't say they're going to be around forever but they are not some fly-by-night.
Need to figure out risk tolerance a bit here but I'd be surprised if they were gone in 10 years. The bigger risk I think is they get bought by Dropbox or someone and then you get stuck wondering if they're going to honour deals like this.
comparing this with Pcloud, which one is more trustworthy ?
Having the same thought. rsync.net has been around for longer (since 2001). pCloud has been around since 2013. Wondering where the threshold of "long enough not to matter" is.
Why so expensive?