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ReadyNAS Vault : great but overpriced!
Hi! Just saw the ReadyNAS Vault announcement : great news! Something I definitely need to really secure my data as my PC backups are, indeed, copied on my ReadyNAS Duo but still in the same locatio...
I just wanted to throw my view in as well.
Completely, agree completely overpriced.
Look at Jungle Disk, which utilises Amazon's S3, it's $0.18 per GB per month, plus $2 per month for Jungle Disk's interface with the S3 service.
Admittedly, there's an upload cost of $0.17 per GB but after the initial upload the costs of this will drop right down (unless you're producing 100's of GB of data a month).
I too use Carbonite, it's maybe a bit slow but the price is in a COMPLETELY different range to the ReadyNAS Vault.
Another option to consider is something like CrashPlan which lets you backup to a remote location, a friend, family member e.t.c I know that using it with the NAS is probably not possible but again the cost issue just doesn't compare!
As involuntary IT manager of a firm of architects I am concerned about offsite storage but I could receive a completely bespoke service that backups incrementally very night and delivers a replacement HDD with ALL of our 800GB data on it within 24 hours should we suffer major loss. All of this service would cost me less than the Readynas solution of 800GB! Now that is obscene!
So, until the pricign drops radically, we won't be using this long awaited, much anticipated, but ultimately flawed, service.
Completely, agree completely overpriced.
Look at Jungle Disk, which utilises Amazon's S3, it's $0.18 per GB per month, plus $2 per month for Jungle Disk's interface with the S3 service.
Admittedly, there's an upload cost of $0.17 per GB but after the initial upload the costs of this will drop right down (unless you're producing 100's of GB of data a month).
I too use Carbonite, it's maybe a bit slow but the price is in a COMPLETELY different range to the ReadyNAS Vault.
Another option to consider is something like CrashPlan which lets you backup to a remote location, a friend, family member e.t.c I know that using it with the NAS is probably not possible but again the cost issue just doesn't compare!
As involuntary IT manager of a firm of architects I am concerned about offsite storage but I could receive a completely bespoke service that backups incrementally very night and delivers a replacement HDD with ALL of our 800GB data on it within 24 hours should we suffer major loss. All of this service would cost me less than the Readynas solution of 800GB! Now that is obscene!
So, until the pricign drops radically, we won't be using this long awaited, much anticipated, but ultimately flawed, service.
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