Amazon is removing unlimited plan

[solracsf]

FYI: https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16591160011

Time to move forward...

[blitz313]

@acs-ferreira - yeah, this was brought up in one of the other threads here a few days ago. Most folks have been investigating other options already and pulling their data off ACD. I also am in that bucket and am currently in the process of migrating all my data over to Google. Some folks have done some nice write-ups for the migration process and how to do it cheaply and most efficiently using tools such as Google Cloud Computing. I chose to go with a tool called MultCloud that you can do for free for under 2TB of data or pay $7.99/month for a Unlimited transfer plan, which should be more than ample time to migrate all your data over. I figured $8 was a more than fair price to pay to speed up the transfer process and not have it chewing up resources on my server.

[HeroCC]

@blitz313 you should make your MultCloud link a referral link, I just signed up for it because of you and it looks like you get points for referring people, like this. Is it 2TB a month or forever?

[afanasenka]

Moving from Amazon to Hubic - 10TB for ~$55/year

[Adorfer]

Hubic is terribly slow (10MBit/s per session, 5 sessions in parallel maximum)

[TheInsane]

I'm going to transfer back to gdrive too. Anyway is it around something less expensive than google plans but with the same or better performance/reliability?

[benjaminsherwood]

Best approach is signing up for GSuite, but just for one user. They say you need a minimum of five but I can assure you this isn't enforced. I have one user and pay about £7 a month for GSuite, which gives me other stuff but mainly, the unlimited storage plan. I've got about 3TB in there so far. There's a 14 day trial, so it's worth a go: https://gsuite.google.com/signup/basic/welcome

Best part of it is, that you can then share the, for example, "media" folder within Google Drive on your unlimited account, with your normal, personal Google account, and then just use it as if it were part of your own Google Account (if, like me, you're invested in that @gmail address).

I've not found a way to be able to share the Photos part of the storage, as in Google Photos is clearly using part of my unlimited storage, but I'm not able to see a way to share that facility with another account, so instead (in order to facilitate my continuing to have all photos I take on my phone automatically backed up to Google Photos), I just added the (new, GSuite) account as a second one to my devices and told it to back up to the other one instead, then took a Google Takeout of all my existing photos and uploaded them to the Unlimited account (I was about to hit the "free 15GB limit" of my free account, hence why this was needed).

Finally, as a Plex subscriber, I configured my Plex Cloud instance to access my Google Drive (something that, unlike ACD, they manage to officially support) and watch media from there. It works great. Only thing that's annoyed me thus far, is that Plex iOS/Android app refuses to sync with Plex Cloud instances (for "reasons", because frankly there's no reason it shouldn't) so I have been looking at other solutions - I tired VLC app on my iPhone, it claimed it would work but didn't like it; also tried just making the files "available offline" in the Google Drive iOS app, but when I got on the train, it just sat there like a git, refusing to play any of the files, despite having worked fine at home in testing...). It's not a big deal, I just watch TV stuff on my Android tablet, downloaded directly to it from Google Drive.

Your mileage may vary, and it's a little convoluted for some, I guess, but since we're all people who used acd_cli, I can't imagine anyone finding this too awkward.

[benjaminsherwood]

Oh, and as for migration - so Google Cloud Platform (and AWS for that matter, but from a throughput-charges point of view, GCP made more sense and was faster under testing) offer a year / some value, of free usage. I spun up one of their bigger Windows-based instances, attached a 2TB drive (I believe that was the biggest you can go, or the biggest without charges) and installed both the Google Drive sync app and the official AWS one. It took a wee bit of manual kicking at times (not least because the official AWS sync app was dumb and despite being told to sync onto the slave drive, kept filling up the C drive with "temp files", guhhhhh) but after a few days, all of my 3TB of crap was in Google Drive.