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Jungle Disk: mount Amazon S3 as a drive for cheap reliable infinite storage
jungledisk.com — Amazon S3 has been around for a while with the promise of dirt cheap reliable infinite storage (fifteen cents a gigabyte per month), but now there's a free slick front-end for it that lets you use it as a disk drive. It works on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and there's GPL'd code that lets other people develop alternative compatible front-ends.
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- yuletide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sounds great, almost too good to be true...!
I see no reason to use anything else if this works as advertised... now, to test it out... - wesvt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion about Jungle Disk on Digg, looks like a very good deal for what you are getting.
- placain, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1By the way, folks, if you plan on using Jungle Disk with rsync, use the "--inplace" and "--size-only" flags.
- skew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If you're at all worried about security, it is too good to be true... check out these threads:
http://forum.jungledisk.com/viewtopic.php?t=14
http://forum.jungledisk.com/viewtopic.php?t=40
This program not only stores your secret key in plaintext on your system... it submits encrypted information back to the company's website whenever the program starts up. - Clevinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For me, Mozy (www.mozy.com) is cheaper. I can store 60GB for $10/mo and can do a full restore 4-5 times a month with no additional cost. So that's the equivalent to paying for 60GB at Amazon S3 ($9) and an extra dollar for up to 300GB of restore service. If I wanted to restore once a month at 60GB with Amazon S3, it would cost me $21/mo ($69/mo if I wanted to restore 5 times a month, but who would want to do that?).
- placain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Mozy may be cheaper, but for me the draw was that it's open source. Try getting your data off of Mozy through some client other than their proprietary client... I can get data off of Jungle Disk using a perl script I hacked together in 10 minutes.
- techjob, on 11/06/2007, -2/+0yeah moron, Mozy also currently doesnt work with Mac - but you can signup for the (Mac) beta here:
http://mozy.com/support/macmozy - haperson, on 07/24/2008, -0/+0how is Gladinet drive, did you hear of it?
http://www.gladinet.com
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