Best online storage solution?

PuppetoPuppeto Chattanooga, TN New
edited November 2010 in Science & Tech
I've been kicking myself lately after I recently lost a ton of photos (almost all in raw format), videos, and other projects through the failure of an external harddrive. Even with the loss of about 30,000 photos I'm still looking at roughly 2TB of data that I need to better protect somehow and I don't feel safe relying on just external backups any longer.

I recently made a JungleDisk account (at 15 cents a GB) to back this stuff up on, but I'm wondering if there might be a cheaper or easier solution. I've also got a Buffalo Terrastation on the way to better take care of my backup situation at home as well and will eventually have that mirrored to an online storage service somewhere.

With all of that said. What would you recommend? What have you used or are using that might work out better?

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  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    Well, I love and recommend Dropbox, but 2Tb online is an incredible amount of storage. The max Dropbox account is 100gb and that's $20 a month.

    If you find something that can accommodate, let me know. I'm interested.
  • PuppetoPuppeto Chattanooga, TN New
    edited November 2010
    I was looking at storage with Amazon S3, but they're still 14 cents a GB with additional charges for get requests over 1000 per month. Jungledisk can use S3, but I'm signed up with Rackspace cloud through them at the moment. Google seems to have storage, but not in the way I'd like. They offer 1TB for $256/yr which is considerably cheaper than what I'm on. The interface leaves a lot to be desired with Google as it's really only designed for Docs/Picasa.

    I may just end up colocating my own box and using my terrastation locally. Nothing out there is able to meet the needs I'm looking for at a reasonable cost, yet....
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