ReadyNAS Vault : great but overpriced!

Hi Jonathan,

Here are a couple of rsync how-to documents that may be of use in syncing up the 2 ReadyNAS units:

http://www.readynas.com/?p=2032

http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=185

I have said it before. I will say it again.

You are a stud.

What I really need is a secure offsite place with broadband access that I can keep a second Pro at for free. Somewhere it won't get messed with nor nosy people trying to see what is inside of it.

I thought first of family, but I don't want to leave my backup where little kids (or my none-to-bright Brother-In-Laws) are running around.

If I kept it at my folks house my grumpy old dad would insist that I pay him for the electricity it uses and also pay for part (or all) of his broadband payment. Plus inevitably he would unplug it at the worst possible moment because "it was in his way".

Anyone who has an air-conditioned vault at home with broadband and a sturdy shelf way up high please PM me. ;)

I offer secure ReadyNas site located somewhere in Belgium :D
Protected by APC UPS (no downtime in last two years), no danger for floodings, ...
Internet Connection Dynamic IP (dyndns enabled) 25Mbps down 1.25Mbps upload (no connection reset)
Restricted access to network room 8)

What do you have to offer for exchange?

Greetings
Jellen

Jellen wrote:
I offer secure ReadyNas site located somewhere in Belgium :D

Perfect, except a bit to far away. :(

I wish my bank would install broadband in their vault, then I would be all set.

Service providers charge extra for oversea data backup ;-)

Jetlag wrote:
I'm actually using a 1TB ioSafe Solo for backing up at home now. Waterproof and fireproof.

Hmmm, looks interesting but I wouldn't put much faith in it actually protecting you if subjected to flood or fire. The 1/2 hour fire rating is minimal and it doesn't claim to be in compliance with UL fire ratings. The manufacturer claims they tested to UL, but they don't claim they conform. Two different things. Plus if you look @ the page that shows the venting mechanism that protects the drive from water/fire, you'd wonder if they test/validate productions samples to insure that real world production can live up to the claims that their prototypes did.

My 2 cents.

Hi Guys.
In this topic, you are discussing about features and usages of ReadyNAS relatively its price. I got nice information about the ReadyNAS features searching for long time. It's like great opinions of users of the software helping me to understand about all aspects of it. Finally, I understand what kind of backup software it is.

About a year before ReadyNAS Vault was announced, I suggsted on the Feature Request sub-forum adding Amazon S3 as a backup destination in FrontView. As some others have mentioned, ReadyNAS Vault is based off of Elephant Drive. In turn, Elephant Drive is based on Amazon S3. So basically, there's two additional "middlemen" taking their cut of the action and ReadyNAS Vault turns out to be 6 to 8x the price of what Amazon offers to their own S3 customers.

Amazon S3 = $0.15 per GB/month for storage + $0.10 per GB/month for transfer in + $0.17 per GB/month for transfer out
ReadyNAS Vault = $1.19 per GB/month for storage (first 5GB) then $0.40 per GB/month thereafter

I love the elegance of ReadyNAS Vault but it's a complete non-starter at the current price. I might pay double what Amazon charges for the convenience of integration but no more.

Jungledisk is also S3 (and Rackspace). They have mentioned in their blogs that they are working on NAS addons for a few NAS products. Based on the responses from the developers, Readynas should be high on their list.