[beagleboard] Unlimited storage on Amazon cloud drive for $5

Hey guys, I read an article today which says Amazon is making their cloud drive unlimited storage for 1 year available for $5. Seems like a crappy interface, but for $5 for unlimited storage, who cares. http://mashable.com/2015/11/27/amazon-unlimited-cloud-storage-deal/#DmOVQBpWSaqs

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Same price as the Raspberry PI zero. 5 Bux ;) So, I'm not exactly an rPI fan, by far. But for 5 bux . . . Or even free if you live in the UK, and have the ability to buy MagPI #40. As one comes in a packet attached to this months dead tree copy of MagPI. On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:10 AM, John Syn

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First one's free: you upload terabytes of data, then your year is up, and what're you gonna do? > On Nov 27, 2015, at 23:10 , John Syne wrote: > > Hey guys, I read an article today which says Amazon is making their cloud > drive unlimited storage for 1 year available for $5. Seems like a crapp

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By then there will be even cheaper options available ;-) Regards, John > On Nov 27, 2015, at 11:37 PM, Rick Mann wrote: > > First one's free: you upload terabytes of data, then your year is up, and > what're you gonna do? > >> On Nov 27, 2015, at 23:10 , John Syne wrote: >> >> Hey guys,

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I saw this yesterday. Amazing. Regards, John > On Nov 27, 2015, at 11:24 PM, William Hermans wrote: > > Same price as the Raspberry PI zero. 5 Bux ;) > > So, I'm not exactly an rPI fan, by far. But for 5 bux . . . Or even free if > you live in the UK, and have the ability to buy MagPI #40.

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I saw this yesterday. Amazing. Regards, John > On Nov 27, 2015, at 11:24 PM, William Hermans wrote: > > Same price as the Raspberry PI zero. 5 Bux ;) > > So, I'm not exactly an rPI fan, by far. But for 5 bux . . . Or even free if > you live in the UK, and have the ability to buy MagPI #40.

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> > *First one's free: you upload terabytes of data, then your year is up, and > what're you gonna do?* > Look over at the terabytes of data I have stored in my room. . . I never understood cloud storage. On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 1:00 AM, John Syne wrote: > I saw this yesterday. Amazing. > > Re

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My guess is you do normal backups of all your important work; however, what if you have a fire, theft, or some other disaster, which will destroy all your backups as well. Hence the need for offsite storage. Now unless you are storing your backup tapes/disks offsite, cloud storage starts to make

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A few years ago I was backing up all my data to a raid6 server. My thinking was any two disks can fail simultaneously and I still would not loose data. Unknown to me, I was using an Intel RAID controller that had a firmware bug and it trashed all my disks and I lost about 6 months of work. Now I

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For my usage, RAID is useless. Better to use separate disks, and rsync. As most data does not need to be redundant, and you get more storage that way, with very little to go wrong. On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 7:32 PM, John Syne wrote: > A few years ago I was backing up all my data to a raid6 server.

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Yeah, but rsync only gives you a snapshot and not a history of your backup. When I really mess up, I want to go back to the state of my machine 15 minutes ago, or two days ago. This has saved me a lot of head scratching, trying to find out where I messed up. I really like the way timemachine wor

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> > *Yeah, but rsync only gives you a snapshot and not a history of your > backup. When I really mess up, I want to go back to the state of my machine > 15 minutes ago, or two days ago. This has saved me a lot of head > scratching, trying to find out where I messed up. I really like the way > timem

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> > *a) rsync for files that do not need incremental backup. e.g. pictures > etc.* > And by this of course I mean: Perhaps you have a whole directory for pictures, and those that have already been backed up using rsync wont need it done again. But if you add new files in a new directory . . .then

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That makes perfect sense. BTW, the only purpose of a RAID backup is to prevent a single point of failure (like a disk failure) resulting in lost backups. One thing to pay attention to is the MTBF numbers for disks. I was a firm believer in Seagate Barracuda disk until I had a whole number of th

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> > *. . .the only purpose of a RAID backup is to prevent a single point of > failure (like a disk failure) resulting in lost backups.* You do not need a RAID array to prevent a single point of failure. You take those 3+ disks, put them in 3 different machines. Or even in the same machine as sing

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Hi William, My comment was just a heads up so other developer’s don’t get take a hit like I did. Just look at your disk SMART data and you will be surprised by the number of errors on those disks. Here is an example of SMART info from one of my 4TB WD disks I use with TimeMachine. As you can se

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One thing that is interesting is greyhole, https://www.greyhole.net/, it is a storage pool technology which leverages samba. You connect as many disparate sized drives as you like. When you copy a file into the pool it makes as many copies of the file across different disks as you have configured

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Sounds like something a savvy Unix user could do with a few drives and a bit of bash script. Then, possibly better. Their front page says they use JBOD by the way . . . which technically is RAID. Even if it only means "just a bunch of disks" On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:30 AM, Lord Drachenblut < lo

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My ignorance of this stuff is very nearly 100%, but why does "Issues found : 0" equate to 'Only' "Overall Health Rating 89.9%" ? Also, how do they get : "Latency Time (Read) : 0 ns" "Latency Time (Write): 0 ns" ...unless this was programmed by the "rogue enginee

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My guess is that they are not measuring those parameters (Latency). Regarding Health rating, I believe that has to do with the number of starts and hours of service. More important to me are the read/write/seek/sector errors. On a few month old Seagate Barracuda drives, these numbers are large,

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@John, So talking about all this reminds me of "back in the day", when 320MB drives were large, and expensive. So at that time I had an 80MB Maxtor I believe it was, and it was nearly full. Knowing one of the local shop owners in the town I lived in ( Montgomery Alabama if memory serves ) I manage

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Hi William, You are way braver than me ;-) Regards, John > On Dec 1, 2015, at 2:17 PM, William Hermans wrote: > > @John, > > So talking about all this reminds me of "back in the day", when 320MB drives > were large, and expensive. So at that time I had an 80MB Maxtor I believe it > was,

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It's not "brave" so much as understanding how *not* to treat a hard drive. On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 6:53 PM, John Syne wrote: > Hi William, > > You are way braver than me ;-) > > Regards, > John > > > > > On Dec 1, 2015, at 2:17 PM, William Hermans wrote: > > @John, > > So talking about all this