Friday, January 29, 2010

Follow-up for Storage

I have not done much reserach about this yet, but I find it intriguing.

The online back-ups are all around. As I said before, that hard drive WILL fail. So, maybe this is the answer.

The sites I found best were:
Carbonite which is $54.95 a year and
Mozy which is $54.45 a year.

***If you are looking to go with the online storage route, I've got the hook-up with Mozy! Save 15% with this Mozy promotional code.

Both seem good and popular. You can get 2 gigs free at mozy.com.

With subscriptions they have unlimited storage. Seems you can back-up from any computer anywhere.

Carbonite seems to have a 4GB per file transfer limit. Not sure if that would matter to any of you.

Carbonite's homepage has this quote:
"Every year, 43% of computer users lose their music, photos, documents, and more."

Better get on that back-up. My only real issue with these sites is, what happens to my data once my subscription runs out? Do I have 30 days to remove? Or is it just on there forever? I would ask that before purchasing.

Down side is you will have to go online to acquire your files as opposed to plugging in something wherever you are. It would be a great "permanent" back-up.

Just thought I'd let you know of other possibilities.
Too bad like all else, the internet WILL fail!!
Ha. Sad but possibly true.

1 comment:

  1. Not positive but when I'm pretty sure Google also offers some kind of online storage. And I don't know about you but I'm kind of on the fence about letting my personal information and such be stored on some random server somewhere, seems a bit unsafe?

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