Is there a good cloud provider to archive large files to?

Question

Here's my need. I have enough iCloud drive space, but some of my devices don't have enough hard drive space to download all my iCloud drive files. And I'm seeing sync issues that I suspect are related to those laptops needing to try and store some iCloud drive files only in the cloud.What I'd like to do is find a service that's super simple and with low pricing where I can upload a few hundred GB of files that I almost never access, to serve as a kind of "self storage unit" of the files that I want access to if needed, and I want with somewhere that has good backups, but that way I can get the space freed up.I don't want to use hard drives locally, I'd rather it be a cloud service.Is Dropbox the best option ($10/mo for 2TB), or should I look at an S3 client like Cyberduck (though if I'm storing 1TB it'll be more expensive than Dropbox, it seems)?

stonegray · Accepted Answer

I've been happy with Backblaze B2. It's 1/5th the cost of AWS S3 ($5/tb/mo), and they'll ship you hard drives for free if you need to download stuff quickly.

bombcar · Answer

You already have the Apple 2TB plan? Because it seems to work decently well with dynamic downloading of files that are used.Anyway Box Drive does what you want and has 10GB for free to play with.

yuppie_scum · Answer

S3 is dirt cheap. And you can use it drag-and-drop from the AWS web console if you like.AWS CLI is also dead simple to pick up for S3.

Is there a good cloud provider to archive large files to?

I've been happy with Backblaze B2. It's 1/5th the cost of AWS S3 ($5/tb/mo), and they'll ship you hard drives for free if you need to download stuff quickly.

You already have the Apple 2TB plan? Because it seems to work decently well with dynamic downloading of files that are used.
Anyway Box Drive does what you want and has 10GB for free to play with.

S3 is dirt cheap. And you can use it drag-and-drop from the AWS web console if you like.
AWS CLI is also dead simple to pick up for S3.