Comments on: Quick Review of Online Storage Providers

By: paul fanta

paul fanta — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:40:23 +0000

but what is the interface with s3??

By: Garrick Van Buren

Garrick Van Buren — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:25:48 +0000

Amazon’s S3 might actually be a viable solution here.

It’s $15/mn to store 100 Gb - with $20 to upload it, and another $20 to download it.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:44:14 +0000

S3 doesn’t work for you?

By: Bryce

Bryce — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:08:51 +0000

Unfortunatly there are still speed issues with an internet transfer. Assuming I have 300gb to back up (I just heard thats the 2006 storage average) and assuming that I can some how squeeze all the bandwidth out of my 6mbit connection there’s still quite a bit of transfer time involved with that amount of storage.

Sounds like external firewire 800 might still be the better option

By: Darrel

Darrel — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:05:33 +0000

What we need is some sort of open source encrypted back up system that works over the internet. Find a friend you trust, each install a backup server (cheap PC with a big HD) and set things to synch the two servers over the internet at midnight each night. Redundant, offsite backups for less than most tape backup systems.

Maybe that already exists?