Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month

I was expecting an ad based on the title, but it ended up being an interesting analysis of just how much storage ends up costing them with their focused hardware setup.

On a related topic, I've had a ton of problems finding a cloud storage system that will reliably handle files around 100-200gb. Does anyone have a recommendation for a service that can handle that file size with ease?

Any object storage system (S3, Backblaze B2, Azure Blob, GCP) should be able to handle those file sizes with proper chunking into smaller parts (limit details below per object store).

S3: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/mpuoverview.... (Max object size: 5TB, Max single multipart size: 5GB)

Backblaze B2: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/large_files.html (Max file size: 10TB, Max single object size: 5GB)

Azure: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/un... (Max file size: 4.75 TB, Max single block size: 100MB)

Google: https://cloud.google.com/storage/quotas (Max file size: 5TB, doesn't appear there is a lower limit for objects to be composed into a single object, docs could be better in this regard)

@khc: Terminology updated to be more clear for S3

It's probably feasible to reach these levels of cost. I certainly still keep NAS in two locations because even places like hetzner don't sell lower powered machines with lots of disk space. But the build they specify doesn't have a CPU or RAM and it's using a SAS cable to connect to a SATA motherboard. Depending on the requirements of the platform they may be able to get away with non-ECC RAM, a simple APU to not need a graphics card, and a few cheap SATA PCIe cards to get enough connections. It will probably add ~500$ or ~10% to the build though. I don't know if the other costs have similar issues.

From their site: [1] Sia is a variant on the Bitcoin protocol that enables decentralized file storage via cryptographic contracts

[1]https://sia.tech/sia.pdf