Arcane WIzard wrote:I didn't say consumer market, I said any market you could reach.CompWiz wrote:I know that. Exactly why what you said was so rediculous:Arcane WIzard wrote:1TB drives aren't on the market you could get to yet, let alone $100, no.
Why do you suggest buying a hard drive for $100 and putting all my data on it? First of all, you claim that 1tb hard drives don't even exist in the normal consumer market. Secondly, while they do, they cost much more than $100. So, it would take years of the Carbonite subscription fee to pay for backup hard drives. And these backup hard drives can also fail, so the backup cost for this method could increase further.Arcane WIzard wrote:You're not telling me that that + 45 / year is less than buying a harddrive for $100 and throwing everything you've got on it in a couple of minutes.
Fantom Drives G-Force MegaDisk 1.0TB 7200RPM USB 2.0 external hard drive: $650.00
CFI External Enclosure 2TB hard drive: $1,099.00
A good backup service: Priceless
Seems pretty reachable to me.
DSL? Not only did I say cable internet in that post, I said clearly later on in my post that DSL wasn't even available in my area. I have been using my cable internet very heavily for a while, with no phone calls or letters or anything. When I torrented a few software programs(ones I already own but lost the cd for, like the Rome and Medieval Total war games), my upload speed was being fully used for a while. I also seeded each one for a while, using a lot of upload bandwidth, like backing up does. I heard no complaints from my cable company. Where exactly did you get this idea that they would complain and kick me off if I use fully my unlimited cable internet connection?Arcane WIzard wrote:Ooh he has a contract that he can continue his "heavy use" on his 3mbps DSL line. lol. learn how ISPs work so you can re-evaluate your own opinion. I'm tired of it.CompWiz wrote:I will not get a phone call from my cable company telling me to "quit it." I can download or upload as much as the connection speed allows. My internet doesn't shut off after a certain number of bytes get transfered. It is "unlimited", and it says so in my contract. I've been using it very heavily for a long while now, and I haven't heard anything from them. That was what I was trying to say.
Well, in any case, there is very, very little higher speed internet access available to resedential customers in most of the US. That is the point I've been trying to make. It's true, look it up if you like.Arcane WIzard wrote:Ooh wow you watched a tv show. Good for you.CompWiz wrote:Sure, there's some fibre optic internet connections around, but very rarely do you see a residential fibre optic internet connection. Businesses, sure, but not residential. There was a great special on the PBS station a few weeks ago that was about the net neutraility battle going on, and they talked at length about how there is very, very little really high speed internet available for residential customers in the US.
Oh, so somehow you think that Carbonite will charge me extra if one of their hard drives fails? If you read what I typed around the snippet of text you quoted, I said that I didn't want to have to pay even more to buy replacement backup hard drives. If one of Carbonite's hard drives fail, I won't have to pay any extra.Arcane WIzard wrote:And Carbonite's. Try again.CompWiz wrote:You seems to forget: Hard drives fail. This includes backup hard drives.
Well, unfortunately, I don't know how to write a program to automatically make split archives of all my computer data, while uploading it to various gmail accounts on the fly(so as not to require extra hard drives to hold the archives created before uploading). Also, it would have to determine if files are new or were changed, and upload those too. And if one email account fills up, it then would need to switch to another one. Additionally, this should be done as background priority, without dominating my cpu or my internet connection(giving other apps priority in both cases). Plus, if I lose data, it would need to list all the data in all the gmail drives as 1 big list of files, and showing which ones were lost and offering to restore them to their original locations.Arcane WIzard wrote:I also like you still ignore that gmail or other email services are free, yet cry about buying a harddrive that isn't more expensive than your internet connection and this shitty service combined.
I really don't know how to program that. Is there a program that can do all that available for download? The closest thing to that I can see is Carbonite, and it is priced very nicely. Also, it eliminates the need for signing up for about 400 gmail accounts(how long would that take?)
Well, in my case, I'd need about a minimum of 250 DVD+RW disks(factoring in coasters and other factors). Now, think how long it would take to burn that many disks. You'd really need a program that could put your files into split archives and burn them to disk automatically. Then there's the changing the disk 250 times to get a backup done. And you know, normal DVD burner drives probably wouldn't stand up to that for very long, so factor in the cost of an industrial DVD burner. And 250 good quality DVD+RW's are probably going to cost around $200, give or take a little. If you get cheaper disks for less, then half of them will probably end up not working. In my case, this would not be an optimal solution, although your situation could be more fitting to it.leofox wrote:At the moment I prefer DVDs though, they sure are the cheapest option. And at 4,7GB an hour or so, it sure is faster than my upspeed (0.064 * 3600 = ~225MB, even at max) xD.