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Re: What's your offsite backup solution?

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On 2014-05-18, Rich <rich@example.com> wrote:
> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
>> $5 a month for 4.5TB... well, that would take a long time to pay off in
>> hard drives.
>
> Western Digital 4TB (yes, not quite 4.5TB, I'm assuming that there is
> likely .5TB of duplicative data in your dataset that would actually
> squeeze out with a deduplicating backup program) external drive at
> Newegg:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236626
>
> Newegg price as I'm typing: $159.99 (free shipping).
>
> Say you want to rotate to a brand new drive every X months (for safety,
> and to build up a collection of redundant data):
>
> Monthly cost per rotation interval:
>
> Interval        Monthly cost
> 3 months        $53.33
> 6 months        $26.67
> 9 months        $17.78
> 12 months       $13.33
> 15 months       $10.67
> 18 months       $ 8.89
> 21 months       $ 7.62
> 24 months       $ 6.67
>
> If you decided to rotate every 1.5 years, the cost (assuming fixed
> prices, which are incorrect) is $8.89/month.  Backblaze at $5 only has
> a $3.89 cushion before rotating your own drives at 1.5 year intervals
> is cheaper than their plan.
>
> And, your own physical backup drive never "decides your computer is now
> a new computer" so you don't have that worry.

One of my local suppliers is offering the 2TB version of that drive at
~88 USD including sales tax and shipping.  2TB per drive is currently ample
for my backups, so I can get more individual drives to rotate.

-- 
Paul Sture

The final step of #heartbleed recovery is to call your mother, and advise
her to change her maiden name                                  -- @gojomo

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What's your offsite backup solution? RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-17 19:44 +0000
  Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Larry Hynes <larry@larryhynes.com> - 2014-05-17 19:48 +0000
    Re: What's your offsite backup solution? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-17 21:27 +0000
      Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Larry Hynes <larry@larryhynes.com> - 2014-05-17 22:14 +0000
      Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-17 23:16 +0000
        Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-18 06:12 +0000
          Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-18 15:11 +0000
            Re: What's your offsite backup solution? Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-18 18:52 +0200
  Re: What's your offsite backup solution? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-05-21 15:40 +0000

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