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The "lifetime" membership is back on sale. $122.50 for 500 GB and $245 for 2 TB storage. Of course the company can shut down anytime but this deal has been popular for the last few years.
https://www.pcloud.com/4thJuly-20...uly%202021
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PurplePickle127
07-02-2021 at 11:47 PM.
07-02-2021 at 11:47 PM.
What kinda things do you store on cloud for which you need TB worth of space? I am just curious cos I don't like storing personal photos of videos on cloud. I own 20 TB worth of hard disks and they just basically are all my media drives.
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07-02-2021 at 11:58 PM.
07-02-2021 at 11:58 PM.
PCloud has managed to get past the sell at a loss stage and is in the space will cost exponentially less as years pass stage... Becoming profitable is a big step in start ups... If I were shopping, this would be a condender.

Can't garentee anything, it's their lifetime not yours. That said, if you weren't going Google Coud, Apple Cloud, Azure, or AWS, this is the top of the next tier.
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RacinReaver
07-03-2021 at 12:02 AM.
07-03-2021 at 12:02 AM.
Quote from PurplePickle127 :
What kinda things do you store on cloud for which you need TB worth of space? I am just curious cos I don't like storing personal photos of videos on cloud. I own 20 TB worth of hard disks and they just basically are all my media drives.
It's a backup plan for a fire at home or some sort of local disaster that might take out another location nearby I may store some drives.

If you're worried about storing personal pictures/videos, just put them in an encrypted .zip or .rar or something and upload that. You can always break them up into smaller files by zipping individual folders or telling it to bundle files into 4 GB chunks.

I don't think it's worth doing off-site for non-personal media you download legally from a service, and, honestly, probably not worth backing all that stuff up to a remote location even if you got it illegally.
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07-03-2021 at 12:03 AM.
07-03-2021 at 12:03 AM.
My last "life time" cloud back up shut down. So yeah, don't trust them that much.
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PurplePickle127
07-03-2021 at 12:12 AM.
07-03-2021 at 12:12 AM.
Quote from RacinReaver :
It's a backup plan for a fire at home or some sort of local disaster that might take out another location nearby I may store some drives.

If you're worried about storing personal pictures/videos, just put them in an encrypted .zip or .rar or something and upload that. You can always break them up into smaller files by zipping individual folders or telling it to bundle files into 4 GB chunks.

I don't think it's worth doing off-site for non-personal media you download legally from a service, and, honestly, probably not worth backing all that stuff up to a remote location even if you got it illegally.

Thanks for the reply. I am the kind who has back ups to backups of the Anime and Movies I own. But its also true I have stuff that were downloaded off the internet sites before which are probably not worth backing up. I also rip my own blu rays for running on my local plex server.

Encrypted compression does sound fine for pics and videos and I do believe that in the future we would all be needing cloud space more than ever. The 4k cameras on phone hogs space like anything.

May be 2TB at this price is not bad at all.
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07-03-2021 at 12:18 AM.
07-03-2021 at 12:18 AM.
I've had the 500GB for a year and no issues. What I love about this as oppose to others is they don't impose a file data size limit. I've had no issues with this service I honestly love it.
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achilles_xboxmode
07-03-2021 at 01:06 AM.
07-03-2021 at 01:06 AM.
I've had the 2TB plan for a couple of years now. No problems so far
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MrMasterQ
07-03-2021 at 01:12 AM.
07-03-2021 at 01:12 AM.
I finally waited and got this deal. Too bad it not the one where they add in the encryption package for free or the Family Plan deal.

Hey some of you might be like me and wanted to change the storage location in Europe from USA. Get a free account first and make this changes first before this purchase as they will charge you $20 to relocate it from USA to like UK.

I wrote an email to have them do this change as I just made this purchase. I think they will do it. If not I will get my CC involve.

It also seem like once you get this deal you can't do the Family Deal but they also offer an upgrade to 4TB option.
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07-03-2021 at 01:55 AM.

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07-03-2021 at 01:55 AM.
Tried the service because of the promo. However, it is not as useful as Dropbox or Box for heavy windows user.

Cannot edit files or run .exe files stored on the pCloud drive.
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fbueller
07-03-2021 at 02:56 AM.
07-03-2021 at 02:56 AM.
Quote from BNNY :
Tried the service because of the promo. However, it is not as useful as Dropbox or Box for heavy windows user.

Cannot edit files or run .exe files stored on the pCloud drive.
Can't run .exe files on the drive? Are you f'ing kidding me? This isn't a VPS. Guess what? You can't play Half Life: Alyx on it either.
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07-03-2021 at 03:25 AM.
07-03-2021 at 03:25 AM.
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Can't run .exe files on the drive? Are you f'ing kidding me? This isn't a VPS. Guess what? You can't play Half Life: Alyx on it either.
He is saying that you can't run a portable app off it.
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07-03-2021 at 03:30 AM.

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07-03-2021 at 03:30 AM.
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Part of the value of a cloud drive is reliability and availability, not just economic. Having lived through the LiveDrive fiasco and having to rebuild my data, reconfigure all of my services to use a different provider, and re-upload (my then paltry 200GB) it's not worth my time to deal with a provider that doesn't have a clear, long term economic viability. Selling "lifetime" plans doesn't easily pay for monthly bandwidth, power, and maintenance costs, much less replacement reserves for hardware, and saving $200 over 4 years wouldn't be worth being down for weeks while having to re-upload my 2.5TB of data I store in the cloud.
Not to mention that with these sort of lifetime plan, you're basically on thin ice where they will look for any type of reason to terminate your account. If you look on Reddit, there are bunch of threads where people have had their accounts terminated for having legitimate copies of copyrighted files on there:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacyt...oking_for/

We know for a fact that pCloud searches your data against a known list of copyrighted files and once they terminate your account, you won't even be able to download your file anymore (source: directly from pCloud support [reddit.com])

So if you bought a legitimate copy of a software and you stick it on pCloud? That's already enough reason to terminate your account. After all, the economics makes sense, they've already got your money, the longer they keep your account the more money they lose.
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07-03-2021 at 03:37 AM.
07-03-2021 at 03:37 AM.
Quote from iinPhoto :
Just don't trust any "lifetime" online service. Once they got enough "lifetime" users, most of them will shut down their business and set up a new company and new service names. Got some very bad experiences on VPN services. As a cloud storage, I'll stick on Google drive.
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07-03-2021 at 04:17 AM.
07-03-2021 at 04:17 AM.
Quote from MrMasterQ :
I finally waited and got this deal. Too bad it not the one where they add in the encryption package for free or the Family Plan deal.

Hey some of you might be like me and wanted to change the storage location in Europe from USA. Get a free account first and make this changes first before this purchase as they will charge you $20 to relocate it from USA to like UK.

I wrote an email to have them do this change as I just made this purchase. I think they will do it. If not I will get my CC involve.

It also seem like once you get this deal you can't do the Family Deal but they also offer an upgrade to 4TB option.

Just use cryptomator for end to end encryption. It's free and works like a charm. I "donated" for a key because I wanted to support them and the ocd in me had to get rid of the little notification badge in the ui.

Why store the data in the EU? Privacy? If that's the case, encryption solves that…
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