pCloud Lifetime on sale again! 500GB for 139€ - 2TB for 279€ - 10TB for 890€

Ympker

pCloud Lifetime Cloud Storage (EU/US locations; based in Switzerland;founded in 2013) is on sale again. I've been with them for a few years now iirc and they've been great so far. Along with Koofr my go-to cloud storage atm. Only missing rclone which Koofr provides.

https://landing.pcloud.com/de/Germany2023

somik

Why not use the international link?

https://www.pcloud.com/cloud-storage-pricing-plans.html?period=lifetime

Just noticed the difference in price...

allnetstore

500GB for 139€

At this price, better get Koofr lifetime 1TB for $159.99 from stacksocial.

cxg

I have koofr already and always wanted to get pcloud aswell. But I never bought because of missing rclone support.
Do you use their app? Or Webinterface only?

allnetstore

@cxg said:
I have koofr already and always wanted to get pcloud aswell. But I never bought because of missing rclone support.
Do you use their app? Or Webinterface only?

rclone supports pcloud since v1.39. (link)

cxg

@allnetstore said:

@cxg said:
I have koofr already and always wanted to get pcloud aswell. But I never bought because of missing rclone support.
Do you use their app? Or Webinterface only?

rclone supports pcloud since v1.39. (link)

Thanks for pointing that out. Did not notice that.
Now I should go and open my pocket.

cxg

@cxg said:

@allnetstore said:

@cxg said:
I have koofr already and always wanted to get pcloud aswell. But I never bought because of missing rclone support.
Do you use their app? Or Webinterface only?

rclone supports pcloud since v1.39. (link)

Thanks for pointing that out. Did not notice that.
Now I should go and open my pocket.

Strange part is, that it was done prior koofr and I still did not realize it.

Ympker

@cxg said:

@cxg said:

@allnetstore said:

@cxg said:
I have koofr already and always wanted to get pcloud aswell. But I never bought because of missing rclone support.
Do you use their app? Or Webinterface only?

rclone supports pcloud since v1.39. (link)

Thanks for pointing that out. Did not notice that.
Now I should go and open my pocket.

Strange part is, that it was done prior koofr and I still did not realize it.

I also didn't seem to notice until now, lol

root

Was the price on Black Friday lower?

Ympker

@root said:
Was the price on Black Friday lower?

Doesn't seem like it, if this is true: https://kripeshadwani.com/pcloud-black-friday-deal/ (BF 2022 seems to have also been 139/279/890)

willie

Shouldn't we know better than "lifetime" deals for something like this? Hetzner Storagebox is around 2€/TB/mo so this pCloud at the 2TB level is like 70 months (~ 6 years) and the 10TB level is almost 4 years. I'd expect something to go wrong way before that.

Fritz

@willie said:
Shouldn't we know better than "lifetime" deals for something like this? Hetzner Storagebox is around 2€/TB/mo so this pCloud at the 2TB level is like 70 months (~ 6 years) and the 10TB level is almost 4 years. I'd expect something to go wrong way before that.

People prefer something like lifetime, unlimited, unmetered. It gives them peace of mind though no guarantee of sustainability.

willie

@Fritz said: People prefer something like lifetime, unlimited, unmetered. It gives them peace of mind though no guarantee of sustainability.

It's the opposite though. Anything that says lifetime can disappear at any moment. I've bought a couple of 3 year storage plans here before and both collapsed partway through. I mostly use Hetzner now.

dosai

@willie said:

@Fritz said: People prefer something like lifetime, unlimited, unmetered. It gives them peace of mind though no guarantee of sustainability.

It's the opposite though. Anything that says lifetime can disappear at any moment. I've bought a couple of 3 year storage plans here before and both collapsed partway through. I mostly use Hetzner now.

Like?

tridinebandim

@dosai said: Like?

EAU DE VPS

root

@tridinebandim said:

@dosai said: Like?

EAU DE VPS

bikegremlin

@willie said:
Shouldn't we know better than "lifetime" deals for something like this? Hetzner Storagebox is around 2€/TB/mo so this pCloud at the 2TB level is like 70 months (~ 6 years) and the 10TB level is almost 4 years. I'd expect something to go wrong way before that.

I would also add the "tied-money" costs.
$500 you pay now will hurt you (and benefit the seller) more than paying it in $4 monthly installments (that's the current 1TB Hetzner Storage Box price - cheaper per TB for larger capacity boxes, at about $2 per month per month for the 10 TB plan).

Edit:
The site is a pop-up scarcity-marketing nightmare.

With the counter to boot!
Almost forgot about those:

f4net

I came across PCloud as TreNAS, supports it, out the box. And I liked the idea of one time payment life time use. I set it up for daily config backups.

hornet

"33 Years of German Unity!"
Yes!