Recently I had a hard drive brick on me. replacing 4tb of string & horn libraries takes some time, considering they were all snagged from our beloved sister site, I've had to scour the internet for working links. Which has led me to entertain the idea of backing up my libraries & other data to a cloud.
I'm turning to you guys in hopes of finding the most reliable and affordable cloud services. Any suggestions? I'm looking to store roughly 8TB of info with the possibility of another 2TB. Unlimited storage is most appealing to me, along with speed of servers download & upload time and reliability.... Thoughts?

 

I have a similar requirement and I was thinking about giving an 8TB Seagate cold storage drive a try. I would be interested in your costing though, just to compare the price of 8TB in the cloud v HDD.

 

Not that I intend to go against you but I feel and think the best way to keep them is with hard drives, best option to me.
Don't want to sound fatalist but you can't rely much on the clouds, at least that's my thought, I may be extragrading. But with hardrives you can store as much as you want, you can save some bucks and buy some 15 TB, I'd buy one but they are too expensive here (everything is expensive here in fact).
And not only that, but to tranfer the data you have to upload all those things you mention and that takes time (guess the same in the opposite situation) even if you have a fine bandwidth, when with the hardrive you just simply connect it and it's done. Plus, the chances of a drive to get broken are pretty low.

 

Fufox offers supposedly unlimited cloud storage, for free. However, cloud storage should never be considered reliable, but rather, as useful for remote access to stored or backed-up data, if also as "redundant" storage mirroring storage on HDD or SSD.

There are different ways to go about "redundant" storage - to the extent of triplicate backup with each instance in different physical locations (say, one drive at home, one in a safe deposit box, and one other being the Cloud or a drive kept at a friend's house in case your house burns down and your bank is blown-up by terrorists. Another thing to try is a RAID setup, which is a lot more convenient. A friend recommends G-Drive for RAID.

My own data files of my music projects and master mixes are now in triplicate backup, on two separate drive units at home and on a portable drive, which I clone-update at least once a month, kept in a safe deposit box. My sample libraries I keep on two separate drives, as well. No big catastrophes yet, but I'm prepared – like taking an umbrella out with me so that it won't rain, perhaps?

 

Since the files are "snagged from our beloved sister site", I think it is not a good idea to put them on a Cloud.
Keep safe and buy a HDD

 

Ive been using old drives and a label gun. 300 gigs here 400 gigs there. I have a Tupperware tub full. must weigh 15 pounds HA

I agree with the hard drives > cloud

a 4 terrabyte external is $130 - $150 Fill it up and put it in a safe place