Cloud Storage

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oneofdamasses

Been trying to find a good online storage site with little luck. I need
this so the goons at TSA/Customs don't get their facist hands on my data.

All the ones I have tried on free trials are too damn slow. Took me over an
hour to upload a 2Gb file from a University T1 connection using FTP
(supposedly). Other ones I have seen are way too expensive or use
proprietary software-which I do not want to put on my computer.

Anyone have any suggestions for a good online storage site that is not so
slow and under $100 a year? Looking for at least 100Gb of storage.
 
You can try Amazon.  You get 5GB free and 20GB for a year if you buy anMP3
album.  If it works out you can upgrade to 100GB.
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I use Carbonite - $55 a year, unlimited data.

On my 8MB standard broadband I am lucky to do 2-3GB of photos a day,
so your transfer rate is 20 times faster than mine.

You may have a T1 connection, but there will also be many other users.
Night time may be quicker. At the rate you quote, 2 days seems OK for
100GB. Does it help if you pre compress it, or is it already
compressed, eg music, video, photos.

100GB is a lot of data. It can take an hour to copy this between
local hard drives

25 years ago it took several hours to low level format a 10MB hard
drive.

Michael
www.cnwrecovery.com
 
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage oneofdamasses said:
Been trying to find a good online storage site with little luck. I need
this so the goons at TSA/Customs don't get their facist hands on my data.
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All the ones I have tried on free trials are too damn slow. Took me over an
hour to upload a 2Gb file from a University T1 connection using FTP
(supposedly). Other ones I have seen are way too expensive or use
proprietary software-which I do not want to put on my computer.
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Anyone have any suggestions for a good online storage site that is not so
slow and under $100 a year? Looking for at least 100Gb of storage.
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Your price projection is unrealistic. Look at Amazon S3
pricing. They are close to what is possible, i.e. they are
not making a lot of profit. Anybody significantly below
their prices will have significant problems.

http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing

For 100GB stored and 500GB transfer in and out for a year,
S3 will set you back $168 + $50 + $75 = $293 or
$112 + $50 + $75 = $237 for reduced reliability.
These are realistic prices. Anybody below for storage amount
will be less reliable. Anybody charging less for transfer will
limit the transfer volume by making transfers very slow.

The problem is that online storage is in no way competitive
with traditional storage at this time. Realistically, it will
only get there if local storage sizes stop growing for at
least a decade. This is nowhere in sight. All the stupid
reports about cloud storage being cheap are written by people
that failed basic algebra.

Arno
 
I use Carbonite - $55 a year, unlimited data.
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For that price thay have to slow you to a crawl to still
make a profit.

Or they do something like this: 10Gb/sec for all customers
combined. With any realistic number of customers this will
be slow.

Arno

On my 8MB standard broadband I am lucky to do 2-3GB of photos a day,
so your transfer rate is 20 times faster than mine.
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You may have a T1 connection, but there will also be many other users.
Night time may be quicker. At the rate you quote, 2 days seems OK for
100GB. Does it help if you pre compress it, or is it already
compressed, eg music, video, photos.
Click to expand...
100GB is a lot of data. It can take an hour to copy this between
local hard drives
Click to expand...
 
Arno said:
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage (e-mail address removed)



For that price thay have to slow you to a crawl to still
make a profit.

Or they do something like this: 10Gb/sec for all customers
combined. With any realistic number of customers this will
be slow.

Arno
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Might it be a better choice to connect to a home computer via TLS, SSL,
or VPN and run programs remotely?
 
oneofdamasses said:
All the ones I have tried on free trials are too damn slow. Took
me over an hour to upload a 2Gb file from a University T1
connection using FTP (supposedly).
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A T1 is only 1.55 Mbit/sec, not only that, but if it is a uni it is
shared.
 
Been trying to find a good online storage site with little luck. I need
this so the goons at TSA/Customs don't get their facist hands on my data.
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Why not just take all of your embarrassing data and leave it on an
external hard drive, and leave the external drive at home? Do you really
need to bring that particular data with you while you're on a trip?

Yousuf Khan
 
Yousuf Khan wrote
oneofdamasses wrote
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Why not just take all of your embarrassing data and leave it on an
external hard drive, and leave the external drive at home? Do you
really need to bring that particular data with you while you're on a trip?
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Corse he does, otherwise he wont have anything to wank to when on a trip, silly.
 
Arno said:
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage oneofdamasses




Your price projection is unrealistic. Look at Amazon S3
pricing. They are close to what is possible, i.e. they are
not making a lot of profit. Anybody significantly below
their prices will have significant problems.

http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing

For 100GB stored and 500GB transfer in and out for a year,
S3 will set you back $168 + $50 + $75 = $293 or
$112 + $50 + $75 = $237 for reduced reliability.
These are realistic prices. Anybody below for storage amount
will be less reliable. Anybody charging less for transfer will
limit the transfer volume by making transfers very slow.

The problem is that online storage is in no way competitive
with traditional storage at this time. Realistically, it will
only get there if local storage sizes stop growing for at
least a decade. This is nowhere in sight. All the stupid
reports about cloud storage being cheap are written by people
that failed basic algebra.

Arno
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I think you will be proved wrong. Some big kid on the block is going to
offer better transfer rates at low cost, just wait and see. When hard
drives are 1TB and up, it is ridiculous to wait an hour for a 2gb file
to upload. That's not worth paying anything for.
 
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