Yeah, we don’t trust their warranties; the manufacturers have repeatedly failed to honor their obligations even when drives die well within the manufacturer warranty.

Also they have become crap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b0JcNqkZrk

My husband says that they follow a “bathtub” curve and they either die in the first 60 days or last about 2 years when they are scheduled to be replaced.

Further he says enterprise drives stopped having ECC in 2008; so they stopped having any reason to trust them more.

Yeah but S3 egress fees are a kick in the face if you need to recover.

Wasabi is also an option

Technically you can buy a 10TB Seagate EXOS for $114; so you could buy the disk storage even more frequently if you wanted.

But if you don’t want to host your own storage, you will have to pay the hosting company’s building rent, taxes, salaries for their staff and their executives bonuses.

Or you can build a Machine that is at a friend’s house and pay only the hardware costs and benefit your friend. You know, building community…

The question of how much Data produces different recommendations. For example if over 5TB rsync.net

This is the closest thing I have found

https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/index.html

You don’t need a cellphone plan, just a cellular data plan (say prepaid 1-2Gb) and you just keep cellular data switched off unless it is an emergency.

Then you can still “WiFi call” in an emergency over that cellular data connection.

No monthly plan required