Online storage

[hellfreeze]

I was looking around online to see how much online storage costs and I saw prices varying greatly among different companies. What would you guys pay for online storage? I saw one website that offered about 5 gigs of file storage for $5/month. Is this good or bad?

Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this post.

 

[Drakkon]

http://aws.amazon.com/s3 - You can't beat S3 imho for just straight file storage. Reliable company that you know wont disappear overnight, stable environment, and reasonable prices for the level of service provided.

 

[hellfreeze]

drakkon, thanks for the link. they really do have some great prices!

 

[Farang]

With a 400gb external HD costing about $110, I don't really see the point.

 

[hellfreeze]

Originally posted by: Farang
With a 400gb external HD costing about $110, I don't really see the point.

it's for those times that i'm traveling and don't feel like carrying anything

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: Farang
With a 400gb external HD costing about $110, I don't really see the point.

Offsite storage and backup protection.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
http://aws.amazon.com/s3 - You can't beat S3 imho for just straight file storage. Reliable company that you know wont disappear overnight, stable environment, and reasonable prices for the level of service provided.

How does it work? I've signed up for the service, but can't figure out how to upload files.

/edit: found bucketexplorer, maybe this is the ticket?

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: Drakkon
http://aws.amazon.com/s3 - You can't beat S3 imho for just straight file storage. Reliable company that you know wont disappear overnight, stable environment, and reasonable prices for the level of service provided.

How does it work? I've signed up for the service, but can't figure out how to upload files.

It looks like it's designed for developers, so you get an API for accessing it (through code). I would assume they have a client for it though.

 

[Miramonti]

Here are a few more S3 options. If anyone has any Window recommendations please post.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: Drakkon
http://aws.amazon.com/s3 - You can't beat S3 imho for just straight file storage. Reliable company that you know wont disappear overnight, stable environment, and reasonable prices for the level of service provided.

How does it work? I've signed up for the service, but can't figure out how to upload files.

It looks like it's designed for developers, so you get an API for accessing it (through code). I would assume they have a client for it though.

there are various 3rd parties that create GUI's for access to it... two that come to mind are jungledisk and S3 Backup. Paid of course (S3 Backup is still in beta tho, and the developer isn't sure what he'll do in the end). Jungledisk also uses it's own proprietary buckets, so you have to use it to retrieve your files as well.

I only mention those because they seem to be the big ones, j3ts3t i think is another, or some variation of 'jetset.'

I'm looking at the same thing for offsite disaster... mozy.com (bought by EMC, so I would hope it'll last) is $5/mo for "unlimited" but I've heard some people that reached close too 100GB would get banned, but that is mostly hearsay. Their mac client is a bit buggy, so I'm not going with them, but they do offer bit level detection, which anything w/ S3 doesn't, AFAIK (please, someone tell me I'm wrong..)

 

[everman]

What about Google?

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: randomlinh

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: Drakkon
http://aws.amazon.com/s3 - You can't beat S3 imho for just straight file storage. Reliable company that you know wont disappear overnight, stable environment, and reasonable prices for the level of service provided.

How does it work? I've signed up for the service, but can't figure out how to upload files.

It looks like it's designed for developers, so you get an API for accessing it (through code). I would assume they have a client for it though.

there are various 3rd parties that create GUI's for access to it... two that come to mind are jungledisk and S3 Backup. Paid of course (S3 Backup is still in beta tho, and the developer isn't sure what he'll do in the end). Jungledisk also uses it's own proprietary buckets, so you have to use it to retrieve your files as well.

I only mention those because they seem to be the big ones, j3ts3t i think is another, or some variation of 'jetset.'

I'm looking at the same thing for offsite disaster... mozy.com (bought by EMC, so I would hope it'll last) is $5/mo for "unlimited" but I've heard some people that reached close too 100GB would get banned, but that is mostly hearsay. Their mac client is a bit buggy, so I'm not going with them, but they do offer bit level detection, which anything w/ S3 doesn't, AFAIK (please, someone tell me I'm wrong..)

From what I've read about mozy.com in another thread here, its frequently fails huge uploads because its too slow and the connection isn't reliable.

 

[Miramonti]

Fwiw, what are these "buckets"?

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: jjsole
Fwiw, what are these "buckets"?

I'm not entirely sure, but I believe it's would loosely equate to say, a network drive. Say you've written Program A and Program B to utilize the S3 service. You want each to store data independently, so you'd have Bucket A and Bucket B for it. I believe that is how it works.

S3 also has a 5GB file limit in case anyone needed to know