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Great chart:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... p_services

Wow never knew there were so many.

Let me ask you this... you think there is any need for a "cloud" service that has a physical truck stop at your place to collect data and store it off site?

Pugsley wrote:Let me ask you this... you think there is any need for a "cloud" service that has a physical truck stop at your place to collect data and store it off site?

my company uses a service for physical media pickup and storage. some systems still require tape backup and the timeframe required for retaining data (financials for 7-10 years, etc) makes it a necessity. they store them in a physically secure area that is temp/humidity controlled.

It is a good plan no doubt, certainly serves as an additional backup choice. I would never solely rely on them though. You simply cannot assume that internet is available at all times. Nor can download speeds ever be comparable to physical media. Still nice way of serving as an "offsite" backup and nice oh shit for occurrences such as fires and natural disasters. I do notice one thing, the very short list of total platform support. The only one that I recognize that does is Dropbox. The scary part is some of them don't have a listing for server locations. Don't think I'd feel safe storing data is places I don't know where it is going.

One thing I wonder about SSD drives and their reliability for long time storage. I know they have a limited life in regards to being used constantly. But, if I used them once, to store one thing ever, assuming it is in a perfect environment, what would be the expected reliability of it, if I only ever used it a couple of times to read from and only read from.

Well I can tell you that I've seen SSDs totally fail (unreadable). I just don't kniw if an SSD sitting on a shelf unpowered will deteriorate over time.

Conversely, I have stored spinning drives of various types in my safe deposit box over the past 2 decades and had no trouble reading them.