[JohnR]

I was curious as to what people make of this. I've been a believer for a while that the only way to really secure your data is to have it resident on disk on a managed server somewhere. (In addition to having local copies.) This company offers 100GB for $200 per year, accessible as a remote drive:

http://www.bingodisk.com/

Would people here use such a thing? (Just curious.)

[woodsyi]

I wouldn't do it for that money.  Maybe at $19.95?

[JEaton]

I was curious as to what people make of this. I've been a believer for a while that the only way to really secure your data is to have it resident on disk on a managed server somewhere. (In addition to having local copies.) This company offers 100GB for $200 per year, accessible as a remote drive:

http://www.bingodisk.com/

Would people here use such a thing? (Just curious.)

No.  Too pricey, for one.  I have nearly 400GB in just my audio library, so that would be $800 per year (maybe there's a price break at that level, but still).

And one thing about my audio library is that it's very static - a ripped and encoded (in FLAC) album is seldom, if ever, changed.  It's dead easy and quite cheap to back up the entire library to a large hard drive and store it in a safe deposit box for a second backup.  That data is static enough that I'd only need to do this once every couple of months for peace of mind.  I don't do this - my current (one) backup is kept at my home.  I just don't feel this data is so critical to my life that it's worth that level of paranoia.

[Scott F.]

Hi John,

I'm with the other guys, its fairly pricey for the services you get. One issue you would have in (lets say) restoring (or even backing up) your music server of say 300 gig, is you get hit with those excess bandwidth charges at an additional $.20 per gig. In the end, it would be considerably cheaper to buy an external USB or Firewire drive.

[SET Man]

Hey!

   That's seem crazy for me at $200 per year for 100g?  What make them so special?

I've been thinking about web based storage too back then. But I've always wonder what storage scheme they use? For example, I'm a photographer and usually have my photo in uncompress TIFF file. If I use web sotarge... will they compress my file to some some other format and uncompress them again when I open it?

I'm not a computer buff but if I were you I would just get myself a external HDD. Currently I have 2 back up HDDs... 400g Seagate and this 250g  Seagate from Tiger Direct to back up my first back up.

Anyway, the only thing that I think is good about web based storage is that... if somehow your hours or office burned down ( knock on wood here )with your storage HDDs, you will still have your files on the storage site.

But then again this could be slove by having a copy at your cousin or friends house

Take care,
Buddy

[randytsuch]

How about 25G for free?

AMD's service
http://amd.streamload.com/index.aspx

I just have a few files there right now.  If you want to share files with someone else, this makes it easy, and if you are not worried about security of the files, a way to keep things to view at home and work.

Other limitation is 1g per month to download or share, but I don't expect to hit that one.

Randy

[Levi]

Joyent Techonolgies, I think they are California based.  It looks kind of pricey for an individual.  I have worked with electronic vaulting companies like Iron Mountain and they are normally expensive.  If for business use, definitely I will use them.  The interface is so easy to use all you need is Internet explorer.

Hi Buddy - It works like a HDD often with compression but it goes with you wherever you have internet connection.  It will not alter your data structure.  That means your files will be accessible anywhere you have internet access.    This is good for someone who needs access to their files wherever they go or for a company who needed an offsite electronic vaulting or project sharing.  Can be used as a disaster recovery plan and backups aswell.  

[SET Man]

Hi Buddy - It works like a HDD often with compression but it goes with you wherever you have internet connection.  It will not alter your data structure.  That means your files will be accessible anywhere you have internet access.    This is good for someone who needs access to their files wherever they go or for a company who needed an offsite electronic vaulting or project sharing.  Can be used as a disaster recovery plan and backups aswell. 

I see.... yes I know about accessing it anywhere which this would be good for those people on the go business.  But for just for storing files than I would just stick with external HDD

How about 25G for free?

AMD's service
http://amd.streamload.com/index.aspx

I just have a few files there right now.  If you want to share files with someone else, this makes it easy, and if you are not worried about security of the files, a way to keep things to view at home and work.

Other limitation is 1g per month to download or share, but I don't expect to hit that one.

Randy

Randy, 25g for free! That's cool man! This would come in handy if I need to store pictures for selling things on eBay or other site.

I have no idea that AMD have this kinna thing.

Take care,
Buddy