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why not to host the files on small VPS? you can upload files via control panel (webmin is free), ftp or ssh
5TB of them? Monthly traffic is low, less than 2TB, perhaps less than 1TB even. Fronting a 120 USD fee for a 5TB external drive seems a good investment vs finding a storage service for 5TB.
I know that gebyte.de does make you individual offers for your NAS
did you mentioned in the first post/your request? NO
this is a reason people need to do a proper request, not just assume that people able to read or guess the thought, it's called communication when people properly tell what they need!!!
That will not be easy: If you had a real NAS (with aLAN port instead USB) then you could try any housing provider, but just a HDD? Don't think there will be lots of offers. Too much work for little money and no automation behind.
And besides, even IF you had a NAS, for such a small storage it would still be cheaper (by at lot probably) to go with a VPS or a storage provider. Check time4vps.eu storage VPS. Or get yourself a OneDrive or comparable account.
Why not try build your own storage server? you can use small cheap embedded device like Raspberry Pi and buy cheap VPS for port forwarding if you don't have public IP.
Because my upload is a pathetic 15 mbit compared to 100 mbit / 1 gbit a datacentre has.
Also, the reason I haven't mentioned the amount of storage is that I could fill the HDD before sending so I'd need to upload little compared to renting a storage VPS and then trying to upload a few terabytes...
Delimiter (who?) slot hosting on paper is what you want, though various people have had unsatisfying experiences with that company. $120/year and you get a pretty good KVM VPS with a disk slot that they put your drive in. I might still give it a try sometime.
Vapornode has a similar product but it's currently limited to <= 2TB drives because of the older equipment in it. They may be able to lift that restriction at some point.
The next thing past that would be to colo a server somewhere. That will start around $40/month plus you need the hardware, but you can put in several drives, fast cpu, etc. Again that's on my agenda for someday.
AWS has a service where you send a hard drive and they upload the contents but it's probably more expensive than you want to think about.
Delimiter sounds interesting, I actually have a VPS with them but never saw this slot hosting, indeed looks like the ticket.
It looks like they have three different options for slot hosting, which I had never noticed before (I always thought they just had the one option). Other than price, what exactly is the difference between them (functionally speaking)?
120/year = VPS plus 1 slot in their server
69/month = dedicated server with 6 slots
99/month = dedicated server with 12 slots
There are annual discounts for the dedis. If you want a ton of storage, the 12 slot stuffed with 8tb or 10tb drives is a decent deal, saving you some hassle over colo at not much additional cost.
Might be easier to attach it to a pi and colo both together then all the provider needs to do is plug the pi into the network as opposed to messing around with USB.
LMAO I can't read. I was so confused because it seemed like you were getting more for the last two, but the price was lower (I was thinking "per year" instead of "per month").
You can send you HDD drive at delimiter (who?) and they will host it.
If that is the reason then I believe some of the "cloud backup providers" such as backblaze do offer the possibility to mail-in a HDD with the "initial seed" for a backup.
You could send your disk there, then download it to a VPS and go on with that then.
Perhaps (i'm not sure ob that) you can find a cloud storeage provider that allows to mail-in a disk and has file management and sharing features that provide the functions that you actually want to have in the end.
Shove it onto an OpenWRT router, create an image of the whole thing, and send the image to a provider with a stable ARM64 host.