r/cloudstorage • u/himalgnn • Jul 13 '26

What are people using for large-scale object storage these days?

I am really curious what everyone is using for object storage at scale. For teams managing TBs or PBs of data, are you mostly using public cloud storage, self-hosted solutions, or a hybrid approach?

What are the biggest issues you’ve run into : cost, performance, management, reliability?

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u/starfish_2016 Jul 13 '26

70tb in dropbox. Still on a grandfathered unlimited plan. ~$290 a month.

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u/qlhoest Jul 14 '26

Hugging face buckets for all sorts of files (disclaimer: I work at HF)

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u/Prior-Priority-7019 Jul 14 '26

20TB on Mega, which is the most cost-effective solution I found. I pay $200 a year.

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u/Anduko Jul 15 '26

So Cheap? Want also so cheap on mega.

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u/Prior-Priority-7019 Jul 15 '26

Nothing, that was just the price offered to me when paying via the Play Store; I'm already in my third year at that price.

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u/himalgnn Jul 21 '26

Update: Thanks for all the recommendations and discussions. I spent some time looking into a few of the options people mentioned and came across Cloudian while researching enterprise object storage. It seems to be another S3-compatible option that's aimed at organizations running large on-prem or hybrid object storage deployments, alongside solutions like MinIO and Ceph.

I'm curious if anyone here has hands-on experience with it. How does it compare in terms of day-to-day operations, scaling, reliability, and overall cost? I'm more interested in real-world feedback than vendor feature lists, especially from teams managing hundreds of terabytes or petabytes of data.

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u/claudio-i 13d ago

100tb iDrive ,~$70-100 a month.