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Comment #230

2006-02-06T01:18:43Z

I tried it once and was able to get the drive running again for about an hour; just long enough to copy off some files and conduct a secure erasure of sensitive data.

Comment #229

2006-02-04T20:21:54Z

Stories like this are not all that uncommon, though I haven't ever tried it myself.
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Comment #228

2006-02-02T02:53:37Z

Okay, I'll bite: freezer trick?

Comment #227

2006-02-01T23:48:44Z

You could always set-up a RAID server. :-)

I am glad to hear you did not have to try the freezer trick with your data.

Comment #226

2006-01-26T21:02:55Z

Gmail is cool.

td gives me 2 gigs
td2 another 2.
And so on.

Help yourself. The lord helps those who do, I'm told.
Tom

Comment #225

2006-01-26T20:43:32Z

Interesting idea. Do you have something like a gmail account with lots of storage?

Comment #224

2006-01-26T20:34:20Z

I've found that e-mailing my data to myself solves the data storage problem.

Comment #223

2006-01-26T17:14:02Z

I suppose this is becoming an advertisement, but...
The remote solution is better in the sense that the hard drives are redundant, so even if one does die, (which you have to expect occasionally, seems to be more often than used to happen) it doesn't affect the operation of the disks.

Yes, a terabyte is kind of crazy, I agree.

Comment #222

2006-01-25T21:20:44Z

A terabyte. It boggles the mind. Then again, I've already used up over 10G of our new computer's 250G drive, and I'm not nearly finished setting it up. Our old computer originally came with only a 10G drive, and I thought that was huge at the time.

You're right; it would be hard to pay $100/month for backup when external drives run about $1/gig. But of course those drives need to be reliable!

Comment #221

2006-01-25T21:03:19Z

I had been talking about this with someone recently, and we thought that perhaps there is a business for internet backups, but it turns out because all the web hosts who claim to give you 20 Gigs of disk space for $1/month or whatever they say, there isn't any way to compete with that.

Once I get a second server, which will most likely have a terabyte or so of disk space, I might have a chance of offering that service for money that people would be willing to pay.
Right now, I would probably have to charge $100/month for 50 gigs or so, and that makes it too expensive for people to not just buy an external hard drive.