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
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