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Need a website for online storage

Oct 16, 2011 12:20PM PDT

Hi, I am looking for a website that can provide me with online storage (not back-up) for all of my DVD's. I will need to upload at least 10 Tarabytes of data (I have over 5,000 tennis DVD's I want to back-up).

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Re: storage space
Oct 20, 2011 4:58AM PDT

Not really clear. First you say "online storage, not backup". Then you say "I want to back-up".

10 TB, that's 10.000 GB. For a backup that is 10 external hard disks of 1 TB for back-up, safely stored somewhere outside your house. That's some USD 1000.

Let's see the prices of Dropbox Teams at http://www.dropbox.com/teams.
10.000 GB = 350 GB + 96.5* 100 GB = 795 + 96.5* 200 = 20,095 USD / year. That's 1 DVD for 4 USD a year.
Dropbox surely is considered a reliable company.

And let's see the time to upload it. Say you upload speed is 10 Mb/second (that's rather high quality broadband). That's 1 MB a second. That's 1 GB on 1000 seconds. That's 1 TB in 1,000,000 seconds. That's 10 TB in 10,000,000 seconds. That's 166.667 minutes.That's 2778 hours. That's 115 days at 24 hours/day. Let's hope they have the option for unattended (batch) operation or it would take a year. And let's hope you have an unlimited upload plan with your ISP. Quite a lot would limit it to, say, 10 GB a month. Than 10.000 GB would take 1000 months (that's 80 years) if you want to stay inside the subscription and not pay for overdraft.

Kees

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Need a website for online storage
Oct 21, 2011 1:42PM PDT

Kees,

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Get online storage now
Dec 2, 2011 6:15AM PST
http://www.filebacker.com/

FileBacker online backup is simple, secure and automated. It works automatically to back up files on your PC or Mac. It takes just minutes to set up and is so easy to use. Try it risk-free for 14 days
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(NT) 2GB is free at Dropbox. 5GB at Pogoplug.
Dec 2, 2011 6:31AM PST