Recommendations - Online storage/backup
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Looks good, but no Linux support. I might give it a try in virtualbox. Thanks.
Simon
I must admit I didn't check the OS requirements. :-O
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I think a NAS would be a better choice. You can always buy some backup software like Acronis and schedule it to do a backup of just that folder every night. A 1TB NAS would do nicely for a long time, and it would certainly cost less than the same amount of time you'd be renting on online backup service. Of course, you could do like I did and just build your own NAS that is infinitely expandable (much more cost effective in the longer run).
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001Is it really though? Lets say your NAS sucks 150 watts. That's 3.6kwh per day. 108kwh per month. I don't know exactly what my tariff is, but from the British gas website, 10p per kwh seems around average. That's £10.80 per month (£129 per year) in additional electricity bills. Carbonite charge £42.95 a year for unlimited storage. Don't forget to add to that an initial outlay. Say £200 to buy/build a NAS plus costs to increase the capacity every time you need more storage space. Plus build time and support time when the OS needs updating etc. Have I got anything wrong?
Simon
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Is it really though? Lets say your NAS sucks 150 watts. That's 3.6kwh per day. 108kwh per month. I don't know exactly what my tariff is, but from the British gas website, 10p per kwh seems around average. That's £10.80 per month (£129 per year) in additional electricity bills. Carbonite charge £42.95 a year for unlimited storage. Don't forget to add to that an initial outlay. Say £200 to buy/build a NAS plus costs to increase the capacity every time you need more storage space. Plus build time and support time when the OS needs updating etc. Have I got anything wrong?
Simon
Simon P Stevens wrote:
Have I got anything wrong?
Simon P Stevens wrote:
Lets say your NAS sucks 150 watts.
An Iomega StorCenter (not a recommendation, just a random Google hit), has a power consumption between 5 and 19 watts according to the spec sheet, and provides up to 4TB of storage.
Simon P Stevens wrote:
That's 3.6kwh per day. 108kwh per month.
Does it need to be powered up 24/7?
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Is it really though? Lets say your NAS sucks 150 watts. That's 3.6kwh per day. 108kwh per month. I don't know exactly what my tariff is, but from the British gas website, 10p per kwh seems around average. That's £10.80 per month (£129 per year) in additional electricity bills. Carbonite charge £42.95 a year for unlimited storage. Don't forget to add to that an initial outlay. Say £200 to buy/build a NAS plus costs to increase the capacity every time you need more storage space. Plus build time and support time when the OS needs updating etc. Have I got anything wrong?
Simon
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Simon P Stevens wrote:
Have I got anything wrong?
Simon P Stevens wrote:
Lets say your NAS sucks 150 watts.
An Iomega StorCenter (not a recommendation, just a random Google hit), has a power consumption between 5 and 19 watts according to the spec sheet, and provides up to 4TB of storage.
Simon P Stevens wrote:
That's 3.6kwh per day. 108kwh per month.
Does it need to be powered up 24/7?
Electron Shepherd wrote:
5 and 19 watts
That's better. Although I was more thinking about Johns suggestion of building one.
Electron Shepherd wrote:
An Iomega StorCenter
Costs £159 from Amazon (1tb). That's still 3 years of unlimited Carbonite hosting. (And actually they have bulk buy offers so you'd get 4 years for that price if you paid upfront). Don't get me wrong. NAS devices are great. I would have a lot of uses for one, like media storage and access. But for my current purposes of wanting backups of my photo's. I'm happy to pay to have it taken offsite and the extra redundancy that brings.
Simon
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Electron Shepherd wrote:
5 and 19 watts
That's better. Although I was more thinking about Johns suggestion of building one.
Electron Shepherd wrote:
An Iomega StorCenter
Costs £159 from Amazon (1tb). That's still 3 years of unlimited Carbonite hosting. (And actually they have bulk buy offers so you'd get 4 years for that price if you paid upfront). Don't get me wrong. NAS devices are great. I would have a lot of uses for one, like media storage and access. But for my current purposes of wanting backups of my photo's. I'm happy to pay to have it taken offsite and the extra redundancy that brings.
Simon
You might also have to factor in the bandwidth usage charges from your ISP: How much will each month's upload cost? How much will they charge to download everything in one go to restore it all in the event of a critical failure?
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You might also have to factor in the bandwidth usage charges from your ISP: How much will each month's upload cost? How much will they charge to download everything in one go to restore it all in the event of a critical failure?
Nothing. I'm on an unlimited plan. (In reality I suspect they'll start to throttle at some unpublished limit, but aside from the initial upload which only happens once, and a recovery which hopefully will be rare, I doubt I'll be hitting that)
Simon
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Electron Shepherd wrote:
5 and 19 watts
That's better. Although I was more thinking about Johns suggestion of building one.
Electron Shepherd wrote:
An Iomega StorCenter
Costs £159 from Amazon (1tb). That's still 3 years of unlimited Carbonite hosting. (And actually they have bulk buy offers so you'd get 4 years for that price if you paid upfront). Don't get me wrong. NAS devices are great. I would have a lot of uses for one, like media storage and access. But for my current purposes of wanting backups of my photo's. I'm happy to pay to have it taken offsite and the extra redundancy that brings.
Simon
Simon P Stevens wrote:
That's better. Although I was more thinking about Johns suggestion of building one.
If you don't need to do live video trans-coding build your own around an atom. $130, 6 sata ports.[^] or $100, 4 sata ports.[^]. The screwholes are a subset of what's used in a standard mini/ATX mobo so you can use a standard case. Small form factor ones are available as well but you'll pay a price for the smaller size... If you need more CPU power go with a 45W AMD desktop cpu.
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I'm in need of an cloud backup/storage service. I've googled and there are dozens. I'm looking for some recommendations of services that have worked well for others. (If you have referrer links that you get a bonus for, post them and I'll use them) Here's my situation - I have around 75gb of photos. I'm generating new photos at the rate of around 2-5gb per month. I currently backup periodically to an external hard drive. Sometimes a few weeks can go by without me doing a backup. I don't want to risk losing these photos. I've been a long time user of Dropbox (free account). I like the seamless sync app and the way it just integrates nicely with explorer/nautilus. But I think I would quickly outgrow the 100gb limit on the pro account. I also use Dropbox to sync files/docs with lots of PC's including at work. I don't really want my work PC to sync all my photos - I don't think Dropbox allows selective syncing. Requirements: - Scalable storage/payments. (Or unlimited at a sensible price) - Windows & Linux (Ubuntu) support. (Although Linux is my main OS, so I can probably live without windows support) - Auto sync/backup. (If it's manual I'll forget too often) - Not restricted to just photo's. Vids and docs too. But the bulk of the data is photos. I'm happy to pay a sensible amount. Any recommendations?
Simon
If this is a personal thing, which sounds like it. I would just purchase a USB drive because you get more GB per $. Use Microsoft SyncToy via a .bat, works great or I also like NTI Shadow, or Seagate USB drives comes with Sync software. I have recently heard about http://b5.crashplan.com/consumer/store.vtl[^] I use http://www.zumodrive.com/[^] but I think they max out at 500GB
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I'm in need of an cloud backup/storage service. I've googled and there are dozens. I'm looking for some recommendations of services that have worked well for others. (If you have referrer links that you get a bonus for, post them and I'll use them) Here's my situation - I have around 75gb of photos. I'm generating new photos at the rate of around 2-5gb per month. I currently backup periodically to an external hard drive. Sometimes a few weeks can go by without me doing a backup. I don't want to risk losing these photos. I've been a long time user of Dropbox (free account). I like the seamless sync app and the way it just integrates nicely with explorer/nautilus. But I think I would quickly outgrow the 100gb limit on the pro account. I also use Dropbox to sync files/docs with lots of PC's including at work. I don't really want my work PC to sync all my photos - I don't think Dropbox allows selective syncing. Requirements: - Scalable storage/payments. (Or unlimited at a sensible price) - Windows & Linux (Ubuntu) support. (Although Linux is my main OS, so I can probably live without windows support) - Auto sync/backup. (If it's manual I'll forget too often) - Not restricted to just photo's. Vids and docs too. But the bulk of the data is photos. I'm happy to pay a sensible amount. Any recommendations?
Simon
Haave you tried Flickr? They have unlimited storage for photos. Especially if u r generating 2gb per month.
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Haave you tried Flickr? They have unlimited storage for photos. Especially if u r generating 2gb per month.
Oh, no, I hadn't. I've got a flickr account that I currently don't use very much. I'll look into upgrading it to a paid account. Thanks.
Simon