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Amazon Kills Off Unlimited Cloud Storage Option For Amazon Drive (usatoday.com)
Coldeagle writes: It looks like Amazaon is killing off it's unlimited storage plan and replacing it with a 1 TB plan for the same monthly cost. USA Today reports: "Amazon had the best deal in online storage -- unlimited backup for $59.99 -- but now unlimited is out. It has been replaced with tiered pricing, the system used by Amazon's rivals. The new rate, announced to customers Wednesday night, is now $59.99 yearly for 1 terabyte of online backup, with each additional terabyte (TB) costing an additional $59.99 annually. Additionally, Amazon is introducing a lower-priced tier set at 100 GBs of storage for $11.99 yearly."
Companies that do this know that there will be some customers that use a little data, some that use a lot of data, and some that abuse the shit out of the offer. So they cancel the deal rather than deal with the abusers.
If these companies know that they will only offer "unlimited" for a year a two, then why do it? Unless they think that a customer will be trapped after uploading their data and won't want to spend the time uploading it all again.
I won't be upgrading my plan and will probably be going with backblaze for my backups.
If your house burns down, what good is that backup drive next to your computer?
Or as Francis Ford Coppola learned, putting the backup drive next to the computer isn't the smartest thing when a thief simply steals both.
Offsite storage is critical for data recovery.
Which is more likely, hard drive failure or connection/cloud service failure, bankruptcy, etc? At least you can secure your hard drive, in theory.
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You lost me at easy....
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God damn the cloud pushers, man. AWS and MS give you a taste of the cloud, for free. Then nearly free. You think, you say, you know you can quit any time you want, but soon so much hardware is gone, and there's two people left in the IT department. Then you're hooked. The cloud prices are jacked up, terms are changed and before you know it, you're waiting on the cloud pusher man.
Amazon does make multiple copies (tho I can't find their SLA for cloud drive), but you're mostly paying for convenience.
Heck, S3 will run you $283 per TB per year. And download isn't cheap either. But with S3 you get many copies of the data, and while you pay by the GB to get the data out, you can scale to absurd bandwidth. It's that last bit that justifies the price. Heck, it's half off if you promise not to access it very often.
And glacier is $50 per TB per year, cheaper than Cloud Drive and more reliable, but it's not at all convenient to get your data back (just the $100/TB for the bandwidth is enough to be painful by comparison).
Your way is definitely cheaper, no question at all, as long as your time is free.
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Thanks for conceding the point.
What point was that?
Funny how you resort to ad hominem in an attempt to get the last word in though.
Funny that you called me an idiot (ad hominem) in your previous comment to get the last word in though. If the kitchen is too hot for you, don't let the back door hit you in the ass on the way out.