Wife and I are losing access to our unlimited Google drive storage later this spring and have been looking for cloud storage to backup our data. pCloud gets some mixed reviews amongst datahoarders, some people have had their lifetime accounts disabled when they store copyrighted material on their drives, while others have had their accounts for years with zero issues. There are also slow upload speeds when using the backup feature on computer client, around 2-5MB/s, while uploading through their web client I was seeing 30-50MB/s speeds. Also some speculation on their lifetime model being sustainable, but they also do offer monthly or yearly plans. It's lifetime of the company kind of plan, not the lifetime of the customer.
With that out of the way, their 10TB plan is on sale for $890. The real list price is around $1300. They offered me a promotion where you buy 10TB plan, you get another 10TB plan for free, and that ended up costing us $1290.
This is a reputable enough company that's been in business since 2015, own all their servers in Luxembourg and Dallas. I'm hoping to get at least 4+ years of storage with them, ideally a lot longer, and the upfront cost will have been worth it.
Two 10TB plans (promo code emailed for the 2nd plan, will expire in 30 days if not claimed) - $1290 [pcloud.com]
One 10TB plan $890 [pcloud.com]
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Encrypted files also cannot be shared.
Once they got their money there's no incentive on keeping you..vs paying monthly or quarterly
I have a voucher for 2tb lifetime account for $200.
I got from the B1G1 sale, so just splinting my cost.
This should be a no-brainer but also make sure to choose the closest data region to your physical location to ensure max speeds.
As for the banning of accounts... it's funny how everybody talks about how they got their accounts cancelled, but never WHY they had them banned ... Just be mindful of the stuff you upload to pCloud and you'll be fine
I wouldn't touch this with a 10 foot pole. Bad deal on a bad plan from a bad company.
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I highly recommend folks review their subreddit as well for more horror stories.
You get what you pay for with pCloud. If you are accepting of that...then so far it's fine for what it does.
I primarily purchased as a cloud backup after crashplan changed their plans etc.
I personally trust my Synology more than pCloud.
Synology 1821+ 8 bays 850 on b&h when on sale. If you use their credit card, zero tax.
8x 20tb. Could be roughly $200 per drive on serverdeal (used enterprise drives). Some zipcodes have zero tax.
You can get up to 108tb of Synology with only double the price of this plan. (Shr2 - 2 drives parity)
If your internet speed is 1gbs, it would be even faster than OP.
Life time of the company and not your lifetime. Most people got it confused.