Store It on the Web
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| Coolest Remote Data Services - StorageMojo chart Updated 061007 | ||||
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| Name | Service | Audience | Cost | Coolness |
| Mozy by Berkeley Data Systems | unlimited, automatic, secure | Personal, SOHO and low-end SMB | 2GB Free Unlimited $4.95 mo. | Designed to compete directly with Carbonite |
| Carbonite | Unlimited Windows Backup | The Masses | $5/mo | Encrypted, Cheap, Easy |
| Cleversafe | Secure, reliable business storage | Business | In Beta | A Paranoid’s Happy Place |
| Gmail | 2.7 GB capacity, email too | Geeky Cheapskates | Free | Storage With An Email Face |
| Openomy | 1 GB Multi-app data store | Developers | Free For Now | Open WinFS for Hipsters |
| Amazon S3 | Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) | Developers, Web Businesses, SOHO, Personal Computing | $0.15/GB/Mo | Industrial Strength Web Service Add Jungle Disk and it's like an extra hard drive on your computer |
| rsync.net | Rent-A-Gig | Linux Users | $1.80/GB/Mo $3.15/GB/Mo(redundant) | Very Linux Friendly - Built for use by rsync! |
| xDrive | AOL Service | AOL Users | 5GB Free More for Fee | AOL Users already have access |
| MediaMax (by Streamload) | Huge storage aimed at media file storage | Everyone with a Browser or penchant for API use. | 25GB Free 1TB $30/Mo | Huge space, Browser based. API Available. |
| Bingo! | 25/50/100GB distributed storage on Sun X4500s (ZFS File System) | Most Unixes, WebDAV,Mac OSX, Windows XP | Storage/bandwidth 25GB,50GB,100GB $49,$99,$199/year | Annual price plan only. Bandwidth is monthly to allow Full backups. Protected against disk failure |
| IBackup | Secure Online Storage plus Backup | Backup conscious users | Storage + Backup 5GB,50GB,100GB $9.95,$49.95,$99.95/month | Like having an extra hard drive right on your computer |
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What a Web Business wants from Storage
- Don MacAskill's Blog Amazon S3 post - Don MacAskill is SmugMug's CEO & Chief Geek
- Don MacAskill's Blog Home - Search for “Amazon S3″ on my blog to find all of the relevant posts if you’re curious - I write a lot about it. My ETech slides are probably the most recent and relevant.
- SmugMug - We’re a huge user of Amazon’s S3 product. To the tune of more than 200TB. We also have our own internal filesystem we still use which was built prior to S3 - and it’s very similar in concept to S3/GoogleFS/MogileFS/etc. So on one end of the spectrum (our database end), we need super fast I/O, and lots of it. On the other end, we need big huge capacity and reliability. So we span the gamut.
- What a web business wants from storage - StorageMojo Source Article on SmugMug
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User Experience
- Jungle Disk - Jungle Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com's S3 ™ Storage Service
- Jungle Disk connects you to Amazon S3 - Web Strategy by Jeremiah Blog post January 02, 2007
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Comparisons and Reviews of Online Storage Services
- Mozy - Excellent services comparison chart
- Online Backup Services Reviews - ConsumerSearch January 2007
- The Online Storage Gang - Good article, URL to comparison chart
- Online Storage: Extend Your Hard Disk to the Web - Hard drive low on free space? Avoid a costly storage upgrade with online storage services - PC World
- Store It on the Web - Review of free and low-cost services that make it easier than ever to back up and share your files online - PC World
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Desktop RAID is a bad idea
- Storage Bits - Robin Harris - Use Online Storage instead
- StorageMojo - Finally, some drive model failure numbers - More info on RAID and Online Storage
- Puget Custom Computers - Why RAID is (usually) a Terrible Idea - Source article for this topic
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Wave of the Future
- Why I think future Online Data Storage companies will Pay You to Upload Data - Web Strategy by Jeremiah Blog post January 03, 2007
- Online Backup's Inflection Point - Brief but good Online Storage Blog post from December 12, 2005
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