So amazon return label you would ship it for free back to Amazon? No remote hands for that?

http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-7200rpm-3-5-Inch-Internal-PH3400U-1I72/dp/B00OP2PKHW

Can anyone recommend some cheap drives from NewEgg/Amazon?

Probably similar to Amazon/NewEgg.

Just got this email today from delimiter. Seems like a very interesting concept, and the pricing isn't bad either. I would like to know where it is hosted, and the email says 4tb bandwidth but the or…

Devil's advocate, since many use Amazon Glacier for self-healing, multiple-datacenter replication and mandatory object signing, government level encryption, what's Objspace's guarantee of object durab

* 10gig SIX (amazon, softlayer, facebook, highwinds, he.net, and about 50-70 other peers).

I was playing the semantics game, I specifically said Amazon rather than AWS. Amazon hasn't ever turned a profit, I didn't say turnover (Image)

Amazon is notorious for not turning a profit, just continuing to re-invest. But AWS specifically is quite profitable, so @MarkTurner is a tad off there.. http://www.businessinsider.com/aws-earns-1-bil

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@raindog308 - Without question there is a size issue, but Delimiter/Yomura have been around nearly a decade. S3 storage isn't rocket science, really the only consideration is survival. Will Yomura sur

It's also not quite the same. Amazon and Glacier are huge companies with PhDs designing their infrastructure. Delimiter might be an ace provider (I've never used them) but they're not quite in the s

Nearline is positioned as a pseudo-competitor to Amazon's Glacier service, but with crucial differences. Glacier data storage has a retrieval time measured in hours, as opposed to about three seconds

Well I do trust Amazon - but trust isn't required for my relationship. :P

"I like how I should not trust Amazon.."

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Duplicity has been very effective for me in full system backups. I personally like how I don't have to trust Amazon as all my backups are signed and encrypted.

I am wondering how many of you here are using Amazon S3 for their daily "Incremental backups" for the server. If so, can you give me some idea's on what tool / method you are using??

8TB drives are already quite cheap i bought 2 other day from amazon. a nice 16TB of raid 0

Also, don't forget about Amazon Cloud Drive. There are ways to mount it in Linux, although performance is unsurprisingly not the best.