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 location : at Home. :? And Nice implementation from within Frontview...BUT, one comment : your offer is significantly overpriced!I can read here : http://www.netgear.com/readynasvaultBasic package per system: $5.95/month up to 5 GB, $.50/GB beyond Business package per system: $19.95/month up to 20 GB, $.50/GB beyond Packages are way too small : I have my Music library toping 40GB, Pictures reaching 27GB, etc... Just considering these volumes, cost will be up to $43,45 per month with the Business package! We are considering NAS online backup.I guess you know LaCie One Year Online Backup offer is $99.95 per year, unlimited volume (Carbonite Online Backup service)...Hope you'll re-evaluate your prices, considering competition...

I agree. I saw the note today -- but when I saw how small "home" was (for $6/mo - or $72/year), I was shocked.$72/year for 5GB of backup? That is about 1 DVD ($0.19). Add postage to mail my backup anywhere (in US) and we have a grand total of $0.61 to back up almost 5GB.Repeat for 12 months (1 backup per month!) and we're still talking about $7 / yearFor one year, $72, I could almost buy a 1TB hard drive, mail it to my parents, and incrementally back up to them over the internet -- and have a lot more than 5GB.

Mozy.com, 5 bucks a month for unlimited. I used the free service (2 gig limit), seems to work alright.

To be fair, we should compare similar services...ReadyNAS Vault is not to be compared against a service which doesn't allow direct Online backup from the NAS (this is an important enabler).Nor it should evaluated against sending an Hard Disk, every month, to your Parents... :) This is why I keep asking why such service is so overpriced versus competition (LaCie offer) and regarding expected data volume usage (we are backing up a NAS here! As Netgear Marketing says, this is a vault and contains "Gigs" of "precious" data).Edited: Typo and clarity]

Just saw this too and thought I'd have a look at what this would mean practically for me. I have 1 very full NAS, but in terms of real data that is invaluable to me and that I would hate to lose, let's say the 500GB of photos, music, and video that would be impossible or extremely difficult to replace.To use this service (instead of or as well as external USB drives) would cost me $250 per month or $3K per year? (How many Duo's would that buy?)BTW: It would take 5 months to upload unless I pay extra for the professional service? (but what's an extra $180 [12months * $15] when paying $3K for storage) And mean having to screw around with my video files to overcome the 5GB per file limitation.Doesn't matter how easy to use this service will be - this pricing is prohibitive

I have to agree, this is way too expensive. Carbonite is much cheaper with unlimited storage. Netgear needs to revise its pricing plan before I sign up.

ReadyNAS Vault : great but overpriced!

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ralph075
Aspirant
Feb 23, 2011
Well, was looking for online backup (directly from NAS) at the Vault, but seeing these prices I will look for other solutions.
Two options:
- Buy another, similar, NAS configuration. Place it in another location and mirror the two NASses over the internet (would be the neatest solution).
- Buy two 2TB ext HD's. Backup my NAS on one HD, place that in a remote location. After x period, make a new backup on the second HD and replace that one with the first HD at the remote location (having the first HD at home again for the next periodical backup). So I will continuously (with a x time interval) be swapping ext. HD's from my home an remote location.
TimSee
Aspirant
Mar 02, 2011
In yet another example of how far out of whack the ReadyNAS Vault pricing is, Google announced User Managed Storage yesterday. Want 1TB of storage in the cloud? Google charges $256 per year. ReadyNAS Vault? ...a comical $3049.

Yes, I understand the comparison is a bit of apples and oranges since the Google storage is no way integrated with the ReadyNAS. The point here is that ReadyNAS Vault integration is not a feature customers are willing to pay a >10x price premium for.

Cloud storage is a commodity and as such has commodity pricing (for everyone other than the ReadyNAS team). Charging your customers a premium for a commodity is a losing proposition.
stgeorge
Guide
Mar 02, 2011
I'm sure we can figure out a way to integrate a readyNAS with that Google backup storage option.....
claykin
Aspirant
Mar 02, 2011
$.0213 per GB/Month. Wow, that is serious cheap. However its not an open storage solution where an end user can store whatever they want. According to this Google Blog its limited to Google Apps, Docs, etc..

http://googlesmb.blogspot.com/2011/03/n ... -user.html
Bascy
Aspirant
Mar 18, 2011
But Google Docs can hold any type of document/file ...
fred4
Aspirant
Apr 08, 2011
I have only had my ReadyNAS Duo for a few days so I am still seeing what I can get it to do.

I thought Vault was very expensive so I am using my Google Docs 80GB account (it cost $20) for online backup.

I have some free software on my PC called SyncDoc. It is pointing to a folder on the ReadyNAS that I want Synced to Google Docs. It happens to contain a lot of pictures. It syncs the folder automatically to Google Docs which I am effectively using as Online storage.

It only works while the PC is on, but it is cheap and so far seems to work. Later I will move files out of the folder on the ReadyNAS to see if they disappear from Google Docs.
Bascy
Aspirant
Apr 08, 2011
Nice idea!
gonna look into this some more
maphoenix
Aspirant
Sep 15, 2011
Another option is to store a 3rd disk offsite locally.

For ReadyNas Duo the drives are mirrored. Buy one more disk and casing and just rotate one disk off site at regular intervals. When rotating the off-site drive back in again, it will be brought back up to date.

dbott67

Guide

Sep 15, 2011

maphoenix wrote:
Another option is to store a 3rd disk offsite locally.

For ReadyNas Duo the drives are mirrored. Buy one more disk and casing and just rotate one disk off site at regular intervals. When rotating the off-site drive back in again, it will be brought back up to date.

maphoenix wrote:
Another option is to store a 3rd disk offsite locally. For ReadyNas Duo the drives are mirrored. Buy one more disk and casing and just rotate one disk off site at regular intervals. When rotating the off-site drive back in again, it will be brought back up to date.

Not really a great idea. RAID drives were never designed for this purpose and although it may work in an emergency, it is more likely to result in lost data for all but the most experienced folks.

For those interested in best practices for backups, have a look here: http://www.readynas.com/?p=3153

TimSee
Aspirant
Feb 08, 2012
Since we're coming up on four years since a feature request to integrate Amazon S3 as a FrontView backup destination (before ReadyNAS Vault existed) I thought I'd bump this thread one more time given Amazon announced a 15% price reduction on S3 storage effective Feb 1, 2012.

To store 1TB of data in S3 is now $125/yr. The same 1TB using ReadyNAS Vault? $3049 a year. That kind of pricing reminds me of the TSA: they're only going to catch the crazy or the stupid :P

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