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Re:I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Am... by 88e282102ae2e5b on Sunday January 17, 2016 @08:58PM (#10922106)
Durability is one reason. A physical hard drive in my desk is so much more susceptible to destruction or loss or theft.
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Re:I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Am... by bigiain on Sunday January 17, 2016 @10:58PM (#10922456)
This.

The data I care about is already backed up on two different multi-TB drives at home, and another one at work.

Glacier is the contingency for "something took out the original data and all three backups in two different locations 7 or 8km apart - if I'm still alive after whatever just happened, I'll consider whether or not to pay Amazon a grand or so to retrieve it quickly from Glacier, or wait ~20 months to get it all for single-digit-dollars".

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Re:I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Am... by manigandham on Monday January 18, 2016 @02:24AM (#10923063)
If you're talking about personal data, why not just use backblaze and amazon's consumer unlimited cloud storage?

That gives you 2 backup providers that can durably store everything and it's free and quick to access. Why deal with all the harddrives and glacier?

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Re:I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Am... by 88e282102ae2e5b on Monday January 18, 2016 @12:32PM (#10925604)
Neither of those seem free - am I looking in the wrong place? Also there's no Linux client for either AFAICT.
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Re:I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Am... by manigandham on Monday January 18, 2016 @08:21PM (#10928266)
Right the services cost money but retrieval is free. Going by the cost of the harddrives amortized out, it'll probably be the same or less. You get far more durability and less complexity with universal web access.

I believe there are other similar services for Linux or you can just use browser to upload files with Amazon.

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