NOTE: I cheated a bit here! I had a 4 GB Raspberry Pi 4 here as part of my Pi-KVM kit. The 14 TB USB 3 hard drive cost me $230, and a 2 GB Raspberry Pi kit cost me $54. How much did I pay for my Raspberry Pi and 14 TB hard drive? Seagate 14 TB USB 3.0 External Hard Disk at Amazon.CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4 4GB Starter PRO Kit at Amazon.That puts it at 5 TB for $450 per year, or you can pay $720 for unlimited storage. I can move up to a Dropbox business plan, but the minimum number of users is three. I don’t fit into either of these plans, but at least I am close! I don’t think they’ll let you stack two plans to get to 2 TB, but if they did, I guess it would be $200 per year.ĭropbox’s individual plans are 2 TB for $119 per year or 3 TB for $199 per year. Google’s largest storage plan is 2 TB for $99.99 per year. That includes my data, my wife’s data, and some episodes of The Create/Invent Podcast. I’m currently up at 4.4 TB of data on my Seafile server. If you saw the glee in their eyes, you wouldn’t want them nosing around in your files. These are big companies, and my brain immediately imagines the clones of my old coworkers that are excited about being able to poke around in our data. Last time I checked, Dropbox has the ability to decrypt your data. It was a power box.Īnd why was that other tree so low?! /ZWHOIcZhX8- Pat Regan January 19, 2021 I planned to do a nice, smooth S-turn over those trees at the other side of the field, but then I had to play a game of is-that-a-dude-or-an-electrical-box. In every one of those IT departments, there has always been at last once person that was EXCITED to tell you that they can read your email. I’ve never wanted to, and I always thought it was creepy when management wanted to check an employee’s email history. In almost every IT department I’ve ever worked in, I have had the ability to read your email. Google Drive doesn’t have an official sync client, and Dropbox has been doing goofy things with their Linux client. If there’s another outage any time soon, I will be quite surprised! Why am I hosting my own cloud storage and file-sync service?įirst, there’s the problem that I’m running Linux. This should happen less often now, because Brian invested in a Tesla solar and Powerwall setup. If there’s a power outage, I have to ssh in and run a script that mounts the encrypted file system and starts Seafile. The 14 TB external hard drive is encrypted, and it needs me to enter a passphrase to unlock it. The root file system isn’t encrypted, so Linux boots back up without a problem, and it immediately connects to my Tailscale network. My Raspberry Pi isn’t plugged into a UPS at Brian’s house. I have to manually restart Seafile when there’s a power outage This includes disabling just about every ounce of logging, so even if there would normally be a trail to follow, I wouldn’t have anything to look at. In an effort to keep my Pi’s microSD card going, I have disabled just about everything that writes to the root file system. The only way in is via Tailscale.īrian power-cycled it for me, and everything came right back up. Brian couldn’t ping it, but that’s to be expected, because just about everything on my Seafile server is blocked on the local interface. The Tailscale admin interface said it hadn’t seen it check in since the night before. Sometime in my new Seafile server’s first month of service, it completely disappeared. Self-Hosted Cloud Storage with Seafile, Tailscale, and a Raspberry Pi.I have the same ISP, but I have a 200-megabit symmetric fiber link. He has a symmetric gigabit fiber connection from Frontier. My new Seafile server is a Raspberry Pi 4 with a single 14 TB USB hard drive, and it lives on my friend Brian’s home network. My server was built like a tank, had redundant power supplies, and my data lived on a small RAID 10 array. I don’t remember how fast those connections were, but they were faster than the gigabit Ethernet adapter in my old 1U servers. Eight years ago, my Seafile server lived in a datacenter in downtown Dallas with redundant links to the Internet.
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