Re: Cloud storage
Posted by
Gary Schiltz-4 on
Apr 03, 2013; 9:51pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Cloud-storage-tp7582450p7582454.html
I haven't thought that much about it, but it just occurred to me that it might be fun to build a distributed, RAID-inspired "el cheapo" cloud storage system. Sign up for about ten services each offering 5 GB of free storage, and think of each as a member of a RAID system, and stripe blocks of files onto them. Voila! 50GB of free, redundant storage. If one or two of the services went out of business, you could dynamically rebuild your RAID by signing up for another free service (with appropriate driver/adapter software). Great for us penny pinchers!
;; Gary
Matthew Yglasias has a
piece on Slate about Amazon's new cloud storage service and how it's likely to kill Dropbox. Naturally I signed up. But I already have a Dropbox account that's not full. I also have Goggle Drive and Microsoft Skydrive accounts. (I also have a Cloud Experience account.) I'm sure I don't need all of these, but I haven't spent the time to decide what I really want to do. Has anyone thought about this? My needs are pretty modest. I tend not to store videos or music, just text and software.
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