Amazon Cloud Drive Unlimited is NO MORE | I'm losing 40TB of Data

Amazon has announced that they are no longer offering their "Unlimited" storage tiers for Amazon Cloud Drive. Unlimited will end on everyone's accounts following the end of current plan. Instead of $60 per year for Unlimited, it's now $60 per year PER Terabyte. This gets unbelievably expensive and they only go up to 30TB... This is a problem and here I rant about why this trend is a huge issue for the cloud storage market.

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[EposVox]

If you think just buying 4 10TB drives is somehow the solution, it's way more complicated than that.

[TGODdesigns]

Hahhaaa the amazon CEO probably saw your 40TB and was like, "We gotta shut this man down! Adam's single-handedly playing us!" :P

[gardiner_bryant]

If this has happened to you before, why would you trust any other services going forward?

[kopitarrules]

Sorry to hear about that, man. It sucks. Especially for independent content creators like yourself. I know I have been putting off a nuke and pave that my system has needed for about 6 months because I do not have the space to back up my data. (I mean I am not in the same league as you, I am only at about 7TB but being on a fixed income limits my options.) Hopefully a solution presents itself, and soon.

[Theexplorographer]

30TB ...Google Drive 300.00 a -year- month. Dropbox Business $20 month. Crashplan Business 120.00/year Unlimited. I currently have all 3. I do LR Catalog backups to Drive and Dropbox as well as serving my Phototools Store Downloads from Dropbox. I use those two for casual sharing, docs, etc. For hardcore backup I use my unRAID server and then redundancy on Crashplan. My files are stored in 3 places. Production drives, unRAID, and Crashplan. Right now I am at 35TB and growing rapidly with 4k, 8k, and UWHD video creation. I DID have Amazon..but their service was so slow and could not handle the sheer number of files I had. Most of my backups are photo RAW files though I am adding more video now. Amazon could not even handle the photos. I would get to around 250K (physical files) and their app would crap out. All is good with the setup I have now. For the very reason that you stated in the video, I would not use Cloud Storage for backup...(Drive/Dropbox/Mega) only for sharing and phone photos, etc. My suggestion to you, would be to set a goal for the end of your Amazon storage. That way you can your files stored. I have enough space here to store your files in you need help temporarily. Just let me know over on Discord. With Crashplan, you can assign multiple users..so if you had 5 trusted friends, they could each grab a block from Amazon and upload to Crashplan for you....just spitballin'. Good luck man. You know you can hit me up if you need help.

[mikerupel]

EposVox: Sorry to hear your plight and pain. BTW, I am fine with the video, just sounded like you needed a good venting session. Sounds like you are actively researching your options which is a good sign. However, obviously, a $60 per year option will not be found. Try not to get too frustrated, but press forward. I am 54 years old and have been in the professional digital media market since 1989. I started working in Photoshop in 1992. I have seen different types of digital storage solutions over the years, most of them on the expensive side. If you would like to talk, feel free to PM me. If I can help, I would be glad to do so. P.S. I really enjoy your content and your passion.

[blakryptonite]

That sucks. They should have a lease agreement to lock into a price. And offer a backup to cold storage option upon ending lease (ie: clone data to WD red drives and ship to consumer)

[danielbolt]

They did the same with Onedrive for Businesses. They said that it was unlimited and later 'the unlimited' became 1TB. it was because actual libraries used it for storage and more people started using it in a bad way. 10 years later you will look back at this hopefuly and be like: 40TB, thats not even my new 16k video library lolz, so little.

[groundzerozone]

Eposvox, I feel you, bro. Watching your video echoes my thoughts and feelings exactly. Ever since Amazon has made this dreadful announcement, I have been beyond stressed and frustrated. Not to sound over-dramatic but it feels like someone close to me in my life died. Amazon Cloud Drive played such a vital and significant role in my life and there is no other suitable alternative (that I can find). I have considered trying to learn about putting together a NAS or just buying a bunch of 4 or 5TB external drives and keeping some at a friend's house to act as a ghetto "off-site backup." I have been running my mind in circles trying to come up with a comparable solution quickly... And I have nothing. I have until 07/18 before my plan expires.... So it's crunch time.
After watching your videos over time, I find we share plenty of similar opinions and views on multiple subjects and trust your judgement. If you would be so kind as to reply back with the option (albeit limited) that you chose to remedy this conundrum; I would appreciate it beyond words. Thanks, brotha!

[Eshcole]

I really like the laid back set with the cool lights in the back. I really hate that Amazon boned everyone out of literally petabytes of data to save/make money. You can't just throw that data on local drives. It's about the support and reliability of having full fledged cloud servers with whole teams behind them maintaining them 24/7 keeping your data safe. You can't easily replace that.

[hbarudi]

I suggest using physical drives to backup your data and prevent loss, then you can shop cloud services to see if any offer you availability, google has up to 30tb ($300/month) but may provide you with more, and microsoft one drive has other options that require contacting microsoft to see if you can fit all the data. Then you need a fast internet like google fiber to work with the data.

[firstelvys]

WOW!! That sucks! I've spent the past month preparing material to upload to Amazon! I've slowly lost HDD's over the past 2-3 years was was frustrated with magnetic media. Daggit!!

[XboxNationCanada]

That is a huge amount of data to try to move somewhere else. $60 per Terabyte is a lot of money. Just so you are aware your description above shows "it's not $60 per year PER Terabyte" I would be super ticked off. The vid.me shirt is cool

[tredog]

I only have about 5TB on mine so I'm not impacted. Time to start burning some blu rays so I don't lose it all. Gives me a reason to build that server I've been threatening the wife with! Good luck on a solution man. Hope it works out for you.

[VantasticOdyssey]

Around 10:20 you have your answer and know what you have to do. It is a lot of work and that really is what is frustrating. Also, can you prioritize what really needs to be back-up or saved. Just saying....I don't know

[yangziyi]

Yeah I hate it when company cheat people. I had my own experience with it

[BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

Get a reasonably priced VPS, use it to transfer it all from Amazon to GSuite Business Unlimited?

[njspencer]

People I knew in tech. Why not use a cloud service for my offsite storage. I built 1u box with 11tb raid10 on Dacentec. I use crashplan to backup it. I also have 2 nas onsite. Amazon pulled some serious carp here. No reasonable cost way out that I see.

[RichbergEnt]

You probably bave figured out by now how to solve your storage issue as of my comment in july of 2018...but i think buying a NAS system for yourself is the answer for people in need of massive storage. For the money amazon wants...you can build you a nice one.

[TheTrekGuy]

lol i'm trying to figure how how 40TB is reasonable for $60 a month let alone the bigger players. I get the frustration but that 40tb was part of the problem.. thanks for ruining it for the rest of us :-D lol (some sarcasm there)