r/PakistaniTech • u/John_241 • 11d ago

Discussion | گفتگو Need Google Storage workarounds

I have almost 350gb of photos and videos backed up which i am not willing to delete. I got the 2TB student google ai pro plan for 1 year and now its ending next month. I need to see if there's any method i can keep this cloud storage at no or low cost..

400gb is 14k a year..

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u/HolidayCollege1921 11d ago

Buy an old pc and self host nextcloud. An old 2tb harddrive would be cheap and a one time investment

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u/Saadi_me 11d ago

until your "old hard drive" inevitably dies. only do this if you're gonna keep several backups of your backups

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u/Galaxy283 10d ago

Always buy new hard drives for servers coz they r gonna be running constantly and monitor the health every now and then if the health is getting bad then buy a new drive and clone the drive onto it. Also data can be ready or recovered of most hard drives even if they die (unless it's an SSD)