ReadyNAS Vault : great but overpriced!

fish wrote:

Lastly, if you opt for one of the yearly pre-paid plans, the pricing gets down to about $0.25/GB-month on average. With any significant access during the time period, you will actually come out ahead. In short, it seems that for an individual who is a) storing a modest amount of data, b) not planning on a lot of access, and c) willing to foresake some of the functionality, using S3 directly may make more economic sense.

fish,

Thanks for the context. I understand that there is a premium to be paid for seamless integration. I still feel the premium is too high. For me, I'm willing to pay less and deal with a lesser degree of integration and a reduced feature set.

I would still like to see S3 offered as a standalone option for the reasons you mention above as well as the one that's most important to me - the fact that, with S3, I own the backup data. If ElephantDrive goes out of business or my NAS crashes, I can access the remote file store directly from my PC.