{"rid":"storage/strato-hidrive-1-tb-for-12-months-at-0","card":{"rid":"storage/strato-hidrive-1-tb-for-12-months-at-0","eid":"strato","topic":"storage","slug":"strato-hidrive-1-tb-for-12-months-at-0","provider":"Strato HiDrive — 1 TB for 12 months at €0 (Valentine's promo)","url":"https://www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/hidrive/","domain":"strato.de","category":"cloud-drive","tier":null,"verdict":"trial-only","vorder":2,"grp":"trial","confidence":"reported","binding":"per-object-cap","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest,webdav,sftp,ftps,rsync,smb,ssh,rclone","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"inherited","checked_on":"2026-10-21","stale_on":"2026-11-04","n_evidence":4,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"1 TB, 12 months, €0 (setup €0). Regular price after the free year is €5/month. Captured promo page states verbatim: 'HIDRIVE Basic | 1 TB | 12 Monate | 0 € |...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":5},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"strato-hidrive-1-tb-for-12-months-at-0","provider":"Strato HiDrive — 1 TB for 12 months at €0 (Valentine's promo)","url":"https://www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/hidrive/","category":"cloud-drive","free_tier":{"stated":"1 TB, 12 months, €0 (setup €0). Regular price after the free year is €5/month. Captured promo page states verbatim: 'HIDRIVE Basic | 1 TB | 12 Monate | 0 € | danach 5 €/Mon.' STATUS CAVEAT: the 2026 round closed on 15.02.26 ('Nur bis 15.02.26') and the live valentinsaktion URL now 301s away, so this is NOT orderable today — it is recorded as an annual recurring window (Feb), which is what makes it the slot's only repeatable >=1 TB free allocation.","unit":"TB","metered_on":"unstated","source_url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260214235234id_/https://www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/valentinsaktion/","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"No per-file cap published on the plan page","source_url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260214235234id_/https://www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/valentinsaktion/","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260214235234id_/https://www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/valentinsaktion/","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"No traffic meter appears on the HiDrive plan page; the plan is sold on capacity only. Unverified whether egress is genuinely unmetered — Strato does not publish a traffic line for HiDrive, which in the German market usually means no byte meter.","metered":false},"interface":["rest","webdav","sftp","ftps","rsync","smb","ssh","rclone"],"interface_detail":"rest","tooling":"rclone has a first-class 'hidrive' backend (added v1.59, Tier 1) — https://rclone.org/hidrive/ — plus plain WebDAV, SMB/CIFS, SFTP/FTPS and rsync-via-ssh. This is the best tooling of anything in this slot: a native rclone backend, not a webdav shim.","chaining":"One promo contract per customer per year, but the promo is ANNUAL and structural — LowEndTalk users state 'They do this every year' (Feb 2024, Feb 2025, Feb 2026 all ran a 1 TB-for-a-year campaign). So the repeatability is temporal, not per-account: N years x 1 TB with a cancel-before-renewal ritual, or N household members x 1 TB.","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"No per-file cap published on the plan page","source":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260214235234id_/https://www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/valentinsaktion/"}],"limits_note":"Contract term 12 months; auto-renews at €5/mo unless cancelled before expiry — this is the real trap and the reason it is 'trial-like'. Signup requires a full checkout with payment details (card/SEPA/PayPal) even at €0. No per-file cap published on the plan page.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"card","country":null},"reliability_note":"Established German host (Strato/IONOS group), German datacentre, TÜV/DSGVO claims. The recurring failure mode reported on LET is billing, not data: forget to cancel and you are charged for year two. Data itself is not reported to vanish.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260214235234id_/https://www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/valentinsaktion/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'HiDrive Valentins-Aktion / 1 TB Cloud-Speicher kostenlos nutzen … HIDRIVE Basic 1 TB 12 Monate 0 € danach 5 €/Mon.'"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/214190/strato-hidrive-1tb-12-months-for-free","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Strato offers its HiDrive Cloud with 1TB for 0 euros until 15.02.26. The period is 12 months and without setup fee'; comment: 'They do this every year, its a contract though, if you don't cancel, you renew for another year and they charge you.'"},{"url":"https://www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/hidrive/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"current plan page lists protocols 'WebDAV, SMB' and a 1 TB tier at 6 €/mo list price"},{"url":"https://rclone.org/hidrive/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"rclone backend exists, 'added in v1.59', Tier 1"}],"verdict":"trial-only","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"1 TB, 12 months, €0 (setup €0). Regular price after the free year is €5/month. Captured promo page states verbatim: 'HIDRIVE Basic | 1 TB | 12 Monate | 0 € | danach 5 €/Mon.' STATUS CAVEAT: the 2026 round closed on 15.02.26 ('Nur bis 15.02.26') and the live valentinsaktion URL now 301s away, so this is NOT orderable today — it is recorded as an annual recurring window (Feb), which is what makes it the slot's only repeatable >=1 TB free allocation.","extras":{"dead_end":{"failure_class":"quota","why":"1 TB, 12 months, €0 (setup €0). Regular price after the free year is €5/month. Captured promo page states verbatim: 'HIDRIVE Basic | 1 TB | 12 Monate | 0 € | danach 5 €/Mon.' STATUS CAVEAT: the 2026 round closed on 15.02.26 ('Nur bis 15.02.26') and the live valentinsaktion URL now 301s away, so this is NOT orderable today — it is recorded as an annual recurring window (Feb), which is what makes it the slot's only repeatable >=1 TB free allocation.","retry_when":null,"first_recorded":"2026-10-21"}},"binding":"per-object-cap","binding_note":"the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":1,"unit":"TB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-object-cap","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.extras.dead_end.retry_when","process"],["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.stated","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}