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I'm looking at signing up for Amazon's S3 service for remote storage of my photos. I have a few hundred gig to put up but was wondering If anyone had any alternative suggestions that are worth considering.
My main concern is that with the current economic climate, I don't want to just choose the cheapest solution; I want to make sure that my photos are still where they are supposed to be in 2 years time!
I don't plan to use any remote service in a customer-facing context - it is for me to store my photos and maybe get to them if I need one when I'm not at home and that's it. I'll still be keeping them locally as well, but decided a remote storage solution was cheaper than building a full-on RAID in the pc (I just have a couple of 750gb disks and a 500gb usb drive for photo storage atm)
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I don't have any practical experience but I wouldn't trust any remote storage company. A couple of high-capacity external disk drives should be all that is required.
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Hard disks are famously quoted as being in one of two states - crashed, and about to crash  I do have local storage but want something as an addition to this. I do get the odd occurrence of needing an image for a potential customer/client whilst I am somewhere other than home so an internet-based storage solution seems a good option
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I have never experienced a hard disk failure on my PCs, but then I do tend to steer clear of bleeding-edge technology, and yes, I do have back-ups. 
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'Sir, please... will you not share your wisdom with us?'
'I have no wisdom,' he told her.
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'They have been trivial, uninteresting, and full of error.'
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P.S. A cross-post in Free Chat should elicit some responses since quite a few posters there use on-line storage.
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'Sir, please... will you not share your wisdom with us?'
'I have no wisdom,' he told her.
'Your experiences, then?'
'They have been trivial, uninteresting, and full of error.'
Iain M. Banks - Feersum Endjinn
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P.S. A cross-post in Free Chat should elicit some responses since quite a few posters there use on-line storage.
 and some randomly stupid answers 
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Just use a raid 1 (mirrored) or raid 5 (parity) set at home. It's all they'll be using on a remote server (if the use it at all).
Edited by deleted (Fri 06-Mar-09 13:49:52)
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and some randomly stupid answers I'll have you know we're highly intelligent and very helpful. 
We just get carried away at times.
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'Sir, please... will you not share your wisdom with us?'
'I have no wisdom,' he told her.
'Your experiences, then?'
'They have been trivial, uninteresting, and full of error.'
Iain M. Banks - Feersum Endjinn
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I costed RAID up last year and decided it wasn't worth the money tbh
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