[rescue] a 'data' rescue

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 12:12:32 CDT 2008


Peter Corlett wrote:
> On 24 Mar 2008, at 16:47, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> Peter Corlett wrote:
>>> On 24 Mar 2008, at 14:45, Rick Hamell wrote:
> [...]
>>> Have you considered backing up over the Internet? WorksForMe(TM).
>> I have almost 10TB of data.  That would *so* not work for me, from a 
>> cost perspective.
> 
> 
> Amazon S3 is $0.15/GB/month, so 10TB would be $1,500/month.
> 
> For domestic use, that'd be prohibitive, but commercially it's not that 
> bad a deal. It really depends on how valuable one's data really is and 
> how much of the hoarded data is actually valuable.

This is exactly the problem.  It's for domestic use.

Peace...  Sridhar



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