TriX wrote:
So I view this with a great deal of skepticism. This is yet another new 3rd tier “cloud storage” company that supposedly uses AWS as their storage provider, but if so:
Does “AWS” mean Amazon S3 storage? AWS can simply mean that they run their application on AWS, but don’t use S3 storage, and if they do, what’s their value add? Are they reselling S3 storage or just providing a portal, and if so, why would you want to deal with them instead of directly with Amazon - just one more single point of failure between you and the storage provider.
They’re a UK company, so where is the storage? If it’s in the UK, it makes no sense to use it in America - the latency will kill you.
They are so new and so unknown that there’s not even a page in Wiki or on Wiki’s list of cloud storage providers, and on their page, the “about us” button doesn’t even work - we know zero about their management, facilities and most importantly, their financial position. And if they go belly up, which is likely, because NO ONE has yet figured out how to provide 5TB of reliable lifetime storage for a one time price of $99 (unless you buy 50 100GB MDisks), how will you access your data.
I’m all for cloud storage for DR, but you get what you pay for, and if you really want to be safe, use a major provider that you know will be here such as Amazon S3, Microsoft, Google, Apple, IBM, etc. Beware the hundreds of start up “cloud” companies - many/most won’t survive long term.
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Been using Polar (formerly Zoolz) for 5 years.
Part of the Genie9 backup software company. Been using Genie9 for local backup for even more years. They put this on sale really cheap also.
The software is simple, easy to use.
Had to contact them once about upgrade problem. Quick response and fix.
It is cold storage. Might call it deep freeze but heck.
The email I got was 5TB + 5TB for $99. Two accounts. Need two different email accounts.