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What's The Best Online Storage?

by Dreams
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Hi,

I would like to store my digital products online and erase them off my computer. It's taking up too much space on my computer.

I would also like to have access to view or read them online as well.

I heard about Amazon's service but I'm kind of worried that it's going to get really expensive because I have around 500 GB of material to store and it can keep increasing.

Does anyone know of a reasonably good price online storage that's also reliable as well? I wouldn't want to lose all my digital products if their server crashes.

Thanks a bunch!
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  • Profile picture of the author Karan Goel
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  • Profile picture of the author Dreams
    Thanks,

    I will look into it. I have around 500GBs to store each month though.
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    • Profile picture of the author Shaun OReilly
      Carbonite offer unlimited storage at:

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    • Profile picture of the author ~kev~
      Originally Posted by Dreams View Post

      I have around 500GBs to store each month though.
      I hope you have a dedicated OC3/T3/Fiber optic internet connection to upload 500 gigs every 30 days. Unless you have some kind of outrageously fast internet connection, there is no way to upload 500 gigs a month - your going to have to be uploading 24/7.

      On top of that, most internet service providers have transfer caps. My isp has a 10 gig per month transfer cap. Anything over 10 gigs and they can charge me $10 a gig. Time Warner will usually cut you off at 50 - 60 gigs, Shaw communications used to cut their customers off at 50 - 60 gigs,,,,,, and your talking 500 gigs? I used to work for Shaw communications - they told their customers they had unlimited bandwidth, but when they hit around 60 gigs, that was it. They got a phone call and their internet was turned off.

      Are these files ones that you created, or stuff you downloaded off the internet?

      If we are talking about your own intellectual property, I would not trust any online service. Protect your property, and keep it in your possession. That means adding the storage you need.

      I do video blogging on youtube. Currently I have about 300 - 400 gigs of my own videos. There is no way I could trust my videos with an online service and then remove the videos from my computer. If I ever had to file a copyright lawsuit for someone using my videos, I want the original files.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisCree
    That's quite a bit of storage to back up. Storing a half a Terabyte on Amazon S3 will cost you at least $75 a month. You'd be better off buying an external hard drive for that much storage if you need to get it off your computer.

    The other thing about web storage is it will take you weeks to upload all that on a DSL connection and will slow down your internet connection the entire time. With that much to back up you'd be better off sending Amazon a hard drive to upload the initial backup. And that will cost you extra too.

    I create a fair amount of video, which takes up lots of space. So I back up all my working files locally on an external hard drive and just back up just the final cuts of the videos to my Jungle Disk account. I have about 20 Gigs on two business user accounts with Jungle Disk and it costs me about $11/month.

    The nice thing about Jungle Disk is that you can use it both as an automated backup and as a virtual drive where you can browse files like you are talking about.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dreams
    Thanks for the input!

    Actually I'm with Carbonite now. I like their service, but the only thing is I want my digital products erased off my computer which means it will get erased off their storage. They only back up what is on your computer.

    I still have external drives that I was backing my stuff up on. One quit and I wasn't too happy about that.

    I was hoping to find a cheap online alternative, but I just might have to bite the bullet and pick up two external hard drives, which can be quit expensive.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dreams
    Yep,

    I think I'm just going to keep all my digital products on external hard drives. My Internet service provider does cut me off at 60GB. Actually instead of cutting me off they warn me when I'm getting too close then I stop backing up or I get charged a certain rate per GB.

    I haven't backed up the total 500GB online yet, I slowly do this each month with Carbonite online storage. I back up 60GB this month then another the next etc... It will eventually reach 500GB.

    I've learned to keep checking to see if I'm going to hit 60GB each month.
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  • Profile picture of the author mystline
    Might be worth investing and setting up a reliable, redundant proof NAS and set up some scripts to automatically backup your files.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Webb
    DropBox, Mozy, lots of cheap options ...
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