I'll put in my two cents. All the files I care about are on a Mac, so I use Arq, which backs up to Amazon's S3 and Glacier services. There are two levels of S3 service which vary in their redundancy. The higher level (S3 standard storage) claims: Designed for 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability of objects over a given year. Designed to sustain the concurrent loss of data in two facilities.
The price is now $.095 per gigabyte per month. I have watched it go down from $.15 to $.095, but it may not be going down as fast as hard drive prices. Amazon's Glacier storage is $.01 per gigabyte per month, but it has a time delay on recovery (about 4 hours, enough time for the gerbils to mount a tape). It can get expensive to move a lot of data in and out of Glacier, but it is fine for long time storage. So now I have my home folder tree on Time Machine and Amazon S3. I have a music and old data (carried forth from PC to PC since the late 80's) on Glacier, so for most of my data (but not bought applications) I have copies 1) on my Mac, 2) on my Time Machine, and 3) on S3 and Glacier offsite. The next problem is if (when) I have to reduce the amount of data on my Mac (when going to SSD, possibly) I will need a place for the data moved off my Mac and my Tiime Machine. I probably will go with a Drobo, which has a good bit of redundancy and which would require only a Glacier backup ($10.00 per terabyte per month) . I am putting some faith in Amazon, but their record is so far quite good, and a disk in a safety deposit box, at least in my case, would be updated rarely if at all. --Barry On Jan 16, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > I figured out the google drive vs g+ plan. It turns out they are integrated, > a good thing I think. I was concerned it was yet another half baked stunt > but this seems pretty well managed. > > -- Owen > > torage plan pricing > Learn about your options for purchasing more storage for Google Drive, > Google+ Photos, and Gmail. > > Store up to 5 GB between Google Drive and Google+ Photos, then pay for > additional storage as your account grows. Here's how it works: > > Tap into your free storage as soon as you start using Google Drive and G+ > Photos. > Purchase additional storage that can be shared across Google Drive and G+ > Photos. When you purchase additional storage, your Gmail storage limit will > automatically be increased to 25 GB. > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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