"Mike Marlow" wrote in news:3110e$4f8f8233
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Puckdropper wrote:
I bought a NAS (Network attached storage) box to store backups and
multimedia files on. With 7.5 TB of storage (but reduced to around 4
TB due to running the drives in RAID6 configuration), it cost around
$1000. That $4/month will pay for 250 months, or about 20 years of
storage and by that time you'll need more space than 4 TB. Hopefully
Carbonite will up the amount of space you can use without raising the
price excessively.


Tera bytes? Is anyone involved in this thread even thinking about
realistic needs? Come on - terabytes?


1 TB is 4 250 GB hard drives. If you have multiple computers, it would
not be difficult to fill that space up.

I'm not thinking about a single backup here, but rather multiple backups
to a single machine. Plus, old back ups sometimes have to be manually
deleted (which can be a good thing), and each one takes up several GB of
space itself.

The bare minimum data backup may only take a few gig, but with space as
cheap as it is (1TB for less than $100) why do just the minimum?

Puckdropper
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