Comments on: My new love of the week- CrashPlan.com http://www.jayleishman.com/my-new-love-of-the-week-crashplancom/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:11:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dornquast http://www.jayleishman.com/my-new-love-of-the-week-crashplancom/comment-page-1/#comment-222 dornquast Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:24:55 +0000 http://www.jayleishman.com/?p=147#comment-222 $1k / year is an estimate based on my experience with what online storage providers charge. Amazon S3, CrashPlan, etc. (Swapdrive charges $2,800 for only 10GB! That's insane.) The main point isn't actually cost - it's practicality. To send 1TB over the internet would take a very long time (months) on your average connection. More importantly, it would take a long time (weeks) to get it back over the internet. If it's offsite nearby, you drive over, and restore directly from drive. MUCH faster, without the monthly costs. If you don't have very much data (<50GB) , I have room at my house on my drobo - you're more than welcome to backup there for free. $1k / year is an estimate based on my experience with what online storage providers charge. Amazon S3, CrashPlan, etc. (Swapdrive charges $2,800 for only 10GB! That’s insane.)

The main point isn’t actually cost – it’s practicality. To send 1TB over the internet would take a very long time (months) on your average connection. More importantly, it would take a long time (weeks) to get it back over the internet.

If it’s offsite nearby, you drive over, and restore directly from drive. MUCH faster, without the monthly costs.

If you don’t have very much data (<50GB) , I have room at my house on my drobo – you’re more than welcome to backup there for free.

]]> By: Jay Leishman http://www.jayleishman.com/my-new-love-of-the-week-crashplancom/comment-page-1/#comment-221 Jay Leishman Sun, 31 May 2009 06:37:31 +0000 http://www.jayleishman.com/?p=147#comment-221 You make a good point about the $80 Tb drive... hopefully my friend has extra ports to plug into. Can you explain how 1tb offsite would cost me 1k a year? You make a good point about the $80 Tb drive… hopefully my friend has extra ports to plug into. Can you explain how 1tb offsite would cost me 1k a year?

]]> By: dornquast http://www.jayleishman.com/my-new-love-of-the-week-crashplancom/comment-page-1/#comment-220 dornquast Mon, 25 May 2009 17:41:06 +0000 http://www.jayleishman.com/?p=147#comment-220 Hi Jay, Thanks for sharing the love! The idea behind backing up to a friend is you can get insane amounts of storage for basically the cost of a drive. Each of you goes and gets a 1TB drive ($80 or so each) .. Then you attach the drive to your mac(s), back up directly to the drive, then put the drive over at your friend's place. Instantly, you have 1TB offsite of storage with no monthly fees. It is a bit of a hassle, but that would cost you $1K/Year using us. The other thing that's cool is if you loose your computer, you can drive over to friends house and grab your drive / restore over USB/Firewire instead of Internet.. MUCH faster. re>3.1 months. Agreed Our estimates are worst case scenario and change frequently. We should alter the code to make it more realistic/optimistic. Hi Jay,

Thanks for sharing the love! The idea behind backing up to a friend is you can get insane amounts of storage for basically the cost of a drive. Each of you goes and gets a 1TB drive ($80 or so each) .. Then you attach the drive to your mac(s), back up directly to the drive, then put the drive over at your friend’s place.

Instantly, you have 1TB offsite of storage with no monthly fees. It is a bit of a hassle, but that would cost you $1K/Year using us.

The other thing that’s cool is if you loose your computer, you can drive over to friends house and grab your drive / restore over USB/Firewire instead of Internet.. MUCH faster.

re>3.1 months. Agreed
Our estimates are worst case scenario and change frequently. We should alter the code to make it more realistic/optimistic.

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