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Online Storage With a Twist

Posted by timothy on from the wiseacres-will-volunteer-to-store-porn dept.

mssmss writes "For a long time, I have been looking for a way to securely store my files online without being tied to a single vendor — whose survival my storage depends on. It looks like Wuala has a way to do this, according to this story in the Economist. They use donated disk space of users to scatter your encrypted files over multiple computers."

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  1. Re:Freenet by nurb432 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Only that hardly used data can disappear off the network. I assume in the case of this other offering, it never goes away.

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  2. Re:Nice idea by Hyppy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, that point is covered. From what I understood, they will distribute your data across enough computers so that you'll have instant access to it 99.9999% of the time. That accounts for offline computers, etc.

  3. It may not fit... by jd · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...but it certainly is done. The projects I've found that do much the same thing are NOT being run by kids in their basement, but serious, large-scale research centers that need to do wide-area RAID.

    dCache
    iRods
    OPeNDAP
    PVFS
    TPIE

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