Amazon EC2 - free for a year with a micro with 22GB non-OS disk, but CPU will suck.

@debug - 200GB is $20/month on Amazon S3 with free inbound bandwidth. You need to be careful about the per-action fee ($.01 per 1,000 PUTs) but if you tar up that's not an issue. Rackspace Files are

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Desktop-WD20EARX/dp/B004VFJ9MK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335707757&sr=8-1

In terms of the topic, I appreciate your guys answers, I was hoping for some inside info, but i'll stick with newegg, amazon and ebay for now.

Can't go wrong with amazon if they are a trusted user, or if directly from amazon. And I have gotten a few good deals at overstock.com

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Honestly I use all 500gb drives in my OpenVZ nodes and have never run short on space, but my build is based on small nodes deployed quick and cheap. Where do I shop? NewEgg, SuperBiiz, Amazon, eBay,

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in theory it should work like that, but really, the only cloud i've seen be really stable are linode, slicehost, some of amazon, & rackspace. Why? Because they use localized storage. But wait,

I don't believe they want to compete with dropbox and amazon, they just needed something like this for chrome os

Do we have some provider rating in LET? like in amazon or android market with average stars? to help in decision making. maybe better if rating is divided per provider location and product type (kv

A Raspberry Pi takes up 7.1 square inches of area. This rack tray/shelf thing provides 190 square inches. Should be able to comfortably fit 10-12 units on it.

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How about a USB ethernet controller for disk access? One reviewer got 312mbps with http://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Gigabit-Ethernet-Network-Adapter/dp/B003VSTDFG/ref=pd_bxgy_e_text_b

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Good point. Amazon inadvertently gave me a 16gb SDHC for free, maybe i'll do some constant read/write testing on it and see how long til it dies.

@Intcs is right, we offer additional bandwidth in 1TB slices for 2,50$ each. And a rather large number of folks (even on the plans with higher limits) purchase this upgrade out of necessity after us…

You aren't a normal VPS user then. Most people use less than 1GB/month. In four years, with over 1,000 VPS clients, I've never had a node go over 700GB/month. My busiest node at the moment has 32 cont

Wish R1Soft would support Amazon S3 for backups.

Pretty much, yes. Here's the thing though, right now EC2 is a pain in the ass to use and even tech savvy developers go to places like Linode, because it's easier to understand. With a VPS there's no s