Free TRUSTWORTHY online storage?
- Thread starter Papa Deuce
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Papa,
If I'm reading you right you just want 5G of remote storage space? Or are you talking about an inexpensive website? Could you giv e a bit more detail?
If I'm reading you right you just want 5G of remote storage space? Or are you talking about an inexpensive website? Could you giv e a bit more detail?
5gigs? What the heck do you need that much for? There are lots of free services (including most ISPs), but that's a big chunk. You may just want to buy an extra tower and set it up as a server.
I picked 5 GB because when I typed free online storgae in google, lots of places had a free 5 GB section.
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Or a hard drive...
I bought a 300 gig external hard drive ($180) with all of my music backed up. Good place for my business files too. I back up about once every few months.
I bought a 300 gig external hard drive ($180) with all of my music backed up. Good place for my business files too. I back up about once every few months.
I do that too... I want some place where, heaven forbid, my house caught fire, was broken into..... I would at least have some stuff at a totally remote location.
Data to External Hard Drive.... External Hard Drive into Fire Proof Safe.... and/or given to a family member or trustworthy source for safe keeping that does not live with you?
Papa - I thought you were creating a website for the bubbles? Why not just store it online on the back end of the website?
I will also vote for Photobucket. I have alot of pictures stored there, even some that I had lost when my hard drive went AWOL.
i would try esnips.com....
give it a go, i have not heard much about it,and I know you want trustworthy. I would still try it out like i have, or at least go to the DJ/Karaoke and see whats up there? idk.... never got into that...
I have also been looking into Media Max because of that immense storage space. You just gave me an idea. I had a problem with an 8GB backup image and my HD enclosure failed. so instead of compressing to many 700MB divisions, I think i will use this
give it a go, i have not heard much about it,and I know you want trustworthy. I would still try it out like i have, or at least go to the DJ/Karaoke and see whats up there? idk.... never got into that...
I have also been looking into Media Max because of that immense storage space. You just gave me an idea. I had a problem with an 8GB backup image and my HD enclosure failed. so instead of compressing to many 700MB divisions, I think i will use this
I think Papa wants a...
a) secure host
b) one that will not dump if he misses a payment
c) one that will not pry into his account
d) 5 gigs, as mentioned
e) backups for the backups
I don't know of many $4 hosts that do that, nightly tape backups. And have the same above features.... Something to bear in mind anytime when choosing a web host.
a) secure host
b) one that will not dump if he misses a payment
c) one that will not pry into his account
d) 5 gigs, as mentioned
e) backups for the backups
I don't know of many $4 hosts that do that, nightly tape backups. And have the same above features.... Something to bear in mind anytime when choosing a web host.
Photobucket PRO is $25.00 a year.
5 GB
2 MB image size
Video Length 10 minutes
FTP Support
Premium support
Unmetered bandwith
That's what I'm using for images and I cannot complain
5 GB
2 MB image size
Video Length 10 minutes
FTP Support
Premium support
Unmetered bandwith
That's what I'm using for images and I cannot complain
Chuck,
There are companies that specialize in online storage, I believe GoDaddy even has an online hard drive plan. Two things to keep in mind:
1) If you can access it online, someone else can too if the server is compromised. Don't put anything real important in online storage, tax forms, quicken files, stuff like that.
2) Do you know how long it would take to upload 5 GB of files? I uploaded a 500 MB (1/2 GB) the other day it took well over 3 hours and that's on broadband.
Just a couple of things to think about, I think short of another backup hard-drive your best bet is burning the files to DVD or CD and placing them in a fireproof safe OR if it's something you don't need to update frequently rent a safe deposit box.
There are companies that specialize in online storage, I believe GoDaddy even has an online hard drive plan. Two things to keep in mind:
1) If you can access it online, someone else can too if the server is compromised. Don't put anything real important in online storage, tax forms, quicken files, stuff like that.
2) Do you know how long it would take to upload 5 GB of files? I uploaded a 500 MB (1/2 GB) the other day it took well over 3 hours and that's on broadband.
Just a couple of things to think about, I think short of another backup hard-drive your best bet is burning the files to DVD or CD and placing them in a fireproof safe OR if it's something you don't need to update frequently rent a safe deposit box.
One Word: Mozy.
2GB for free, automatically backed up every night.
I've got the paid *unlimited* account for $4.95/month and literally have over 50GB backed up with them! (documents/pics/music/etc) It's a long first backup, but after the initial run it only backs up what changes. Highly recommended, I use them with many of my clients.
2GB for free, automatically backed up every night.
I've got the paid *unlimited* account for $4.95/month and literally have over 50GB backed up with them! (documents/pics/music/etc) It's a long first backup, but after the initial run it only backs up what changes. Highly recommended, I use them with many of my clients.
Did I mention the 448-Bit blowfish encryption? From the Mozy blog....
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"We’re a little unique here in that we give our users the option to provide their own private key (a passphrase, a picture, a music file – whatever) which is hashed to generate a 448-bit key for encryption. This key is stored on their PC, and we don’t have access to it – it’s stored on the PC and is never transferred to our servers – which means that we can confidently protect data from both kid sisters and government agencies.
To help explain how strong the encryption is, let’s consider if you were to brute force an attack on the data encrypted on the Mozy servers. You’d have to consider 2^448 different keys, which is a lot of keys (the numbers of atoms in the universe is estimated to be somewhere around 2^77 or so.)
But let’s say the DOE Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory let you borrow BlueGene/L, which is the most powerful computer in the world (as of this writing) and let’s assume that the Linpack Rmax Gflops metric is a proxy for key generation – where a key can be generated and tested in about the same amount of time it takes to perform 1,000 floating point operations. So that’s 280,600,000,000 keys per second.
This means that it would take BlueGene/L about 30 years to guarantee that it would crack the encryption that Mozy utilizes. Now, this doesn’t mean that Mozy is all that when it comes to encryption – it’s not like we invented this algorithm – we just selected it based on its strength and speed.
So that’s BlueGene/L – but if you used your own PC, then it’d take closer to 3,026,328,640 years or so. Or if you got a bunch of people to cluster your computers together – say 10,000 of your closest friends, it’d still take about three hundred thousand years."
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"We’re a little unique here in that we give our users the option to provide their own private key (a passphrase, a picture, a music file – whatever) which is hashed to generate a 448-bit key for encryption. This key is stored on their PC, and we don’t have access to it – it’s stored on the PC and is never transferred to our servers – which means that we can confidently protect data from both kid sisters and government agencies.
To help explain how strong the encryption is, let’s consider if you were to brute force an attack on the data encrypted on the Mozy servers. You’d have to consider 2^448 different keys, which is a lot of keys (the numbers of atoms in the universe is estimated to be somewhere around 2^77 or so.)
But let’s say the DOE Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory let you borrow BlueGene/L, which is the most powerful computer in the world (as of this writing) and let’s assume that the Linpack Rmax Gflops metric is a proxy for key generation – where a key can be generated and tested in about the same amount of time it takes to perform 1,000 floating point operations. So that’s 280,600,000,000 keys per second.
This means that it would take BlueGene/L about 30 years to guarantee that it would crack the encryption that Mozy utilizes. Now, this doesn’t mean that Mozy is all that when it comes to encryption – it’s not like we invented this algorithm – we just selected it based on its strength and speed.
So that’s BlueGene/L – but if you used your own PC, then it’d take closer to 3,026,328,640 years or so. Or if you got a bunch of people to cluster your computers together – say 10,000 of your closest friends, it’d still take about three hundred thousand years."
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