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You might only pay for what you use, but you have to pay it monthly. If you have 100gb of stuff it is NOT cheap. You’re better off buying an external drive(s).
@UnderLoK: I believe you pay monthly for what you UPLOAD or DOWNLOAD, not use as storage. I'm pretty sure it's just bandwidth they're charging you for, not for the actual storage.
@Iron Man Underoos: Amazon S3 is extremely reliable and has been around for awhile now. Comparing 1984 to their S3 service is getting a little carried away.
Even if they were going to bother searching through your stuff, how would they know what was licensed or not? Besides, it's an encrypted archive.
Even though I don't agree with Amazon's decision to delete the purchased books from people's Kindles, it's a vastly different situation. They were in the position of having sold files that were in violation of copyright. They were trying to minimize the damage. They don't have any compelling reason to start rifling through S3 customers files.
@ospreyguy: I'm in the same boat. I used to store a server at my folks place and use that for remote backups, but the PSU kind of fried and stunk up the basement so...
@SysRq_: It's definitely not a Time Capsule killer because HP's MediaSmart servers don't actually recover Macs. It's a bit of smoke and mirror marketing... HP supports Time Machine for individual file recovery, but there's no network whole-OS recovery. I got burned by this by the EX485.
they are publishing for millions to read. you would have to be a moron to say windows 7 doesn't have a time capsule equivalent with shadow copy or at least to not mention shadow copy/ previous versions.
this is definitely a situation that warrants name calling - they need to learn to wake up and do some research before they just start posting.
@Jonathan Berkasha: Sorry, Windows' implementation of backup is not nearly as slick as Time Machine or what Seagate is promising. Why do you think people don't back their shit up?
@matt buchanan: I think you mean "not nearly as pretty" since having significantly less features than what Windows has built in hardly matches my definition of "slick". But, I certainly would not argue that the Time Machine interface is pretty and easy to use.
What's with the terrible form factor? It would take up much less desk space if it could stand up. The rounded top means it's not even any good for stacking.
@1 DVS BSTD-Its off the Hizzle fo $hizzle My Dizzle: Agreed. However, when you think about all those Seagates crapping out in the larger disk capacities, you know they're just trying to get a product to market that works.
Working for a few years as a warehousing manager I would not let those pallets ship. First they did tie at the bottom but when you go around the pallet you need to get all four corners at the bottom connect the product to the pallet, dumb just dumb… I should have told my boss I was an artist instead of just the manager I could have gotten paid a lot more..
@Hiroak: Maybe he was artfully letting you see how fragile the sands of time are rooted to their base. (That or he has never wrapped a pallet and has clue what happens to items in transit.) Frigging artists.
Imagine someone has been living with their deathclock sand timer for a couple of decades, and then some ambitious jerk comes along and has it flipped somehow while the person's asleep.
I wonder how an old person would react to suddenly waking up to see so much time passed by.
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If you want off-site, put the drive in your car.
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Even if they were going to bother searching through your stuff, how would they know what was licensed or not? Besides, it's an encrypted archive.
Even though I don't agree with Amazon's decision to delete the purchased books from people's Kindles, it's a vastly different situation. They were in the position of having sold files that were in violation of copyright. They were trying to minimize the damage. They don't have any compelling reason to start rifling through S3 customers files.
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Not sure I get it.
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thank you jepzilla.
these authors are morons.
04/27/09
Are you 7 years old or something? - Grow up.
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they are publishing for millions to read. you would have to be a moron to say windows 7 doesn't have a time capsule equivalent with shadow copy or at least to not mention shadow copy/ previous versions.
this is definitely a situation that warrants name calling - they need to learn to wake up and do some research before they just start posting.
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Indeed 500 gb is just to small nowadays.
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I wonder how an old person would react to suddenly waking up to see so much time passed by.
02/02/09
I got 72 years.
Pallet = 8 x 6 = 48
18 Pallets = 18x 48 = 864 Bags of Rolex Sand
1 bag = 30 days (say 1 month)
so that is 864 months of sand
864/12 = 72 years of sand
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