I was looking at these types of services to be able to have an online backup, but I decided that for the amount of data I have that it is impractical. For me, the bottleneck is the upload bandwidth to get the data out there in the first place. My flac library is not huge, around 85 GB, but my ISP limits upload bandwidth to 384 kbps, or 768 kbps if I pay an additional $10 per month.
85 GB ~= 9 x 10^10 bytes ~= 7 X 10^11 bits 384 kbps ~= 4 x 10^5 bits/sec 85 GB / 384 kbps ~= 2 x 10^6 sec ~= 23 days Even at double the bandwidth, it would take over 10 days, assuming that I was able to get the maximum bandwidth, that it never timed out, got interrupted, encountered errors, etc. To be honest, I have the storage space out there already, and I tested uploading 1 album's worth of flac files. It took so long that I decided not to continue. Now, if I had physical access to the server and could "seed" it with the 85 GB by connecting a USB drive, I might consider doing incremental uploads from there. However, even that is pretty impractical unless you have much better upload bandwidth. -- jeffmeh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jeffmeh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3986 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33458 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
