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minus-squarecapital@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-21 year agoStoring that much data on Wasabi would cost about $1,700/mo. If it’s that important, rent a VPS, connect Rclone to Google Drive and Wasabi, and transfer. Even 5 Gb/s would get it done in under 5 days and VPSes are usually faster than that. I hope someone has already made this suggestion to him. Edit: Forgot about the daily download limit… ugh. What a pain in the ass.
Storing that much data on Wasabi would cost about $1,700/mo.
If it’s that important, rent a VPS, connect Rclone to Google Drive and Wasabi, and transfer.
Even 5 Gb/s would get it done in under 5 days and VPSes are usually faster than that.
I hope someone has already made this suggestion to him.
Edit: Forgot about the daily download limit… ugh. What a pain in the ass.