On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:54:42PM -0500, Nick Cummings wrote: > I don't know how it compares to other backup solutions, but it definitely > seems pricy to me. $1.6 per GB per month with some quantity discounts. > If I wanted to back up the ~50 GB of data on my home computer, that'd come > to (with the discount) $64/mo. > > If you only want to backup a small amount of really important data, then > it probably makes sense. But if you want to back up things like > multimedia, it seems pretty steep.
Agreed -- too expensive. A SATA 500GB disk is selling for ~$140 now, which is $.28/GB . You could buy a couple of 500GB disks each month, copy your data over yourself, and just never use them again. Think of it like tape backup :-) - Rob .
