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It is already 'in the cloud', one would just 'download' it from Dropbox at whatever speed the hosted server and Dropbox can transfer at. Can you download from Dropbox at 10 gbps?
I think most (if not all) cloud file storage providers cap throughput per user, to save on bandwidth and disk usage, both are limited resources. Try it - see how fast it will be.
I think any provider that has no overage fees and knows what they're doing, including storage, vps, and even datacenters, would always have some resource caps in place so one customer doesn't degrade the service for others. Just ask a datacenter or provider what they consider a 'DOS attack' to be, and why they don't like it.
One personal experience was with Google Fiber's 1gbps upload & download to the home, while I truly had 1gbps to the net and the latency to Google was excellent (all google services were super quick, especially noticeable with ultra-quick seeking on youtube videos), there was definitely a speed cap when uploading and downloading to youtube, google drive, photos, etc. It varied by service, and I think it was never faster than 200mbps. That was years ago, so it's possible policies/resources may have changed since.
I think larger providers may also have more technical concerns over just per-user policy limits, like if data is compressed/decompressed or encrypted/decrypted or moved around within their network before it can be accessed, there may be disk, CPU, and other factors. I would also imagine when dealing with many TBs of data that some requests could even fail, where a file isn't available because a resource is down, which could further slow download efforts.
Curious what would happen if you buy all the hardware, and pay all the fees to prep the new online storage, only to realize dropbox has some ridiculous cap giving like 30-50 mbps? If that would happen, while 50mbps is sufficient to stream 4K HDR video, it would take a year to download 200TB of data.
Dropbox download is between 10-20MByte/s (80-160Mbps), even if you have 1G link.
Would take 100 - 200 days to transfer all files.
Even on paid accounts?
I don't think OP will be able to move this data to anywhere. It will take forever regardless of uplinks. Encoding to HEVC and then moving will take 2x forever again, regardless of GPUs used if any are used at all. Still if budget is >$1000/m, I would be willing to help with S3-compatible object storage with nine nines durability. PM me.
Dropbox Business, according to multiple sources.
Here some test results from users:
https://testmy.net/host-history/dropbox
Not sure where you got this. I have 5gbs fiber and can download or upload at 3gbps speeds both directions. If I do a transfer from DB to another provider, it fluctuates. Db will give me 3gbps down but the other company might cap upload at 1gig.
There were only a few storage servers that I could actually pull the full 5gbs download, Google Drive being one of them, but your limited to 10TB/day.
as someone who has a small hom server and backups accross the world and as someone who lost picutres many many years ago, i can only agree
This was my thought too. If the data is this important, I’d want 2x copies of at least the parts I don’t want to lose. The other copy could be local backups at your home, or could be a second co-located server. I would look at using different locations and different providers if co-locating in case for some unfortunate reason you lose the hardware and can’t recover the data. Maybe it’s some sort of catastrophic incident with the hardware beyond losing a few drives. Maybe the company goes bankrupt and doesn’t ship it back, or in shipment the hardware is lost or damaged. Dunno, but I’d want a second copy as there’s very few companies I’d afford the sort of trust that maybe Dropbox, Amazon etc would entail. While I didn’t follow it closely, the Dedipath closure seemed like a nightmare for those co-locating through them when they closed on short notice.
But as others said, I’d be looking at trimming the data down too if possible. Not just to save costs. Sounds like at least some of this has some family importance, but if you become sick, hit financial difficulties or pass away I’m curious if a next of kin can cope with 300TB of digital legacy. I think most people would be completely overwhelmed by it. Would they continue to preserve that or cut ties with it all because it’s just too much to sort through?
You said somewhere 300-500€
Imo you should well
Re-encod3 most of your atuff and cleam it up
Assuming now you have 100-200TB
(Which is nuts still)
You should.just use 2 homes with harddrives or tapes
Datacanter is too expensive
Im still unsure how you cam end up with 300 TB of VHS
Would take 100 - 200 days to transfer all files.
With rclone I was able to upload/download 50 concurrent files fully saturating my 10G link.
Lol: https://www.xda-developers.com/youtube-as-storage-data-to-video/
nothing new