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Tbh you get jerked around less with paid plans. I'm happy with Hetzner Storage Box. I have 5TB there for 10 euro/month. I'd never use Google Drive. borgbase.com has a 10GB "free forever" plan and I could see parking some stuff there, but 10GB is pretty small and IDK the conditions. Why not use a VPS provider with better storage options?
Well, my VPS is used mainly by my friends for Minecraft servers, collaboration, file sharing, streaming and pretty much everything cloud related
Most of them live in Istanbul and my VPS provider is one of the most reliable and affordable providers located in Istanbul.
Unfortunately, Hertzner doesn't work for me because their prices are astronomical for me compared to Google's regional pricing for Turkey (40TL/mo = 1.1USD/mo for 2TB)
I just wanna exploit the service as much as possible since I just don't rely on them. Electricity prices are too high for homelab but maybe I could set up a solar powered server if I save a little (I'm a student, I don't have much money, but I like the hobby)
I'll probably try accessing cancelled drive account with rclone and find out if it's possible
The other cost to home lab serving lots of data is internet limits.
My internet will throttle after X terabytes (I forget the limit), whether upstream or down, and of course upload is slower.
It's like playing a game of tetris with costs, performance, stability, reliability, flexibility, privacy, security, and personal effort.
I'm not saying don't have a home lab, just that there are things to consider. It's worth the effort for me, though I'm working to move some things to cloud storage (e.g. Hetzner/Storj.io) and a VPS to get some of the bandwidth off my connection, and remove my home internet as a bottleneck or failure point.