they pulled the rug on wasabi ( the “cheap” ) option so if you are on wasabi lucid… new prices are like 3x and they use AWS now, the new lucid 3.0 app they released is not even feautre complete yet , cant change mountpoints or cache size
enough said, we are looking at alternatives, there are a few.
stuff like thid just annoys me , unpredictable costs adjustment
selfhosting rulez.
I replied to the boss on Slack asking for a timeframe , I’m gona guess she dill dodge the subject
I asked the same, just takes like one macOS update that breaks the fuse kext again and we are SOL
Wasabi is $6 a TB , lucid was $20 a TB so a healty markup I can live with.
suite studio uses cloudflare, thats $15/TB and suite is $70/TB quiet a heafty markup
I am trying to figure out if its actually all just a fancy gui on top of rclone and macfuse … dont know what secret crap they put on top . I build a prototype in like 3 hours that at least at first sight works the same as these .
there is also amove.io popping up promising a lot for cheap.
Isn’t the only unique think about Lucid, that it does “smart” caching, and you don’t need to have available free space for the totality of the dataset?
Even iCloud drive does that, and you can manually pin directories.
Is iCloud suitable for Trusted Partner Network?
its a bit more than this “on demand sync” it feels more like a NAS and not like a sync app like dropbox
for example if you have a 20min prores clip it only streams and caches the part of the prores you need which is useful to some workflows (not mine)
the biggest win for us is that it mounts like a external disk so we get same mountpoints for everyone no matter where they are, so we can tap into freelancers home-boxes and licenses. gives us so much flexibility.
can you do all this kinda the same with synologydrive/dropbox/ whatever and run symlinks ? sure but we found onboarding with lucid to be suuuper easy and fast and it kinda just works.
also its a single point if thruth unlike having data replicated across all the machines.
we also use it in the studio as a nas replacement giving us local ssd speed for cached assets, going way past our 10Gbit infra, so it checks a lot of boxes for us.
but its not like there arent workeable alternatives. especially at the price now…
What about Resilio? Seems to have most of the feature set.
i found performance to be super bad last time I tried it also does it feature mounting as a drive etc? their weird thing they offer I just dont wuiet understand what they want
dropbox gives me $4/Tb i just need to run a script to symlink and I am golden
We used Resilio on a big job a few months ago.
Very mixed on it.
Pros:
Cons:
Yuck. Port forwarding? What is this? 1999?
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jup, but they dont say “supported until X” just “for now you are fine”
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Perhaps jump off the bridge when pushed then?
Not sure if anyone has any experience with Suite Studios, but we were contacted by them as a Lucid alternative. We’re knee deep in a project right now and couldn’t explore other options, but perhaps this might be a good fit for others looking to leave lucid?
I’ve demo’d. There’s a lot to like, although to @finnjaeger point the pricing structure is pretty similar to Lucid.
But I like the guys. They’re scrappy. My issue is we’re so in it with Lucid that there needs to be super compelling reasons to jump ship at this point.
Dropbox has it’s cons and everyone makes fun of us, but we’re beating on it hard and it generally works great. We had looked at Lucid but got sticker shock. Our other office is going to test the Black Magic cloud thingamajig, but 48TB is kinda puny.
→ studio cache (like a Level2 cache)
→ Much faster reads and writes to the mounted volume. Lucid craps out at like ~1GB/s more or less depending on OS, seems to have gotten worse with LL3 , i guess due to them switching to fuse-t instead of macfuse.
→ easy transfer links for massive data transfer
→ better snapshotting thats Free!!
At the same pricepoint suite studio is feature and performance wise better , one thing I cant vouch for is stability - last time I tried it it bascially murdered my firewall because it was too brutal but they have a bandwitdth limiter now
Ahh, sorry I missed that you tried out in your post above. Good to hear that feedback.
We’re not in a position to really audition lucid alternatives right now, but sounds like this might be worth a look when we are.
Thanks for the info!
I am averse to rumor mongering but I wouldn’t be surprised if next year AWS do what Amazon did to online shopping - they will find the best parts, go directly to the manufacturers and suppliers and they will provide a whole foods approach to storage.
when they do it will be a mixed blessing.
yeah but isn’t it better to pretend its gonna be fine and then freak out when it actually isn’t?
asking for a friend.
