Dump your hard drive. A better backup solution in on sale in our store today

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@shaddack
I’m not sure about 8Tb drives of any kind since they are out of my price range at this point. I had the opportunity to get the 3Tb and grabbed it. My current system came with a 1Tb. Since I also have a second, older computer, I have now set things up so my data storage is LAN based, with a 320Gb HDD as C drive on both systems, the 1Tb as my D drive on this system and the 3Tb running on the second, older system. Both using Win7 64bit.

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I am voting for bog butter as a storage medium. That stuff can last 3 millennia easy.

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Remember when BoingBoing WASN’T a spammy re seller with a few average -to-poorly written articles about random stuff?

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Who’s to say these guys won’t be out of business tomorrow?

For an extra ten-spot, you can get a 1 TB pocket drive with a USB3 connection for both power and speedy transfer. I’ve got 2 of them, and alternate them for imaging my laptop’s HD.

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The fact that Zoolz scans uploaded files for .torrent files (and who knows what else) makes this a no-go for me. Not the kind of company I can give my money.

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I’m not sure, but I think my hard drive is somewhat faster than that.

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For *nix users, Tarsnap looks interesting. Anyone here use it?

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I’d say the fact that when they advertise having “zero knowledge” about your back up data and they are lying should make that a no-go for anybody.

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By “lifetime”, do you mean my lifetime, or the lifetime of the startup?

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I hope they allow the addition to my existing account.

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I realize that you need to make money and can’t afford to be picky, but couldn’t you choose stuff that isn’t as close to home and doesn’t hurt your credibility quite as much? Perhaps off-brand Viagra or so. It just a bit sad if you are peddling the exact kind of scammy shit that your own editorial content would usually rail against.

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So am I! Wait… whats a fame-tomato-second?

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Amazon might just outlive me. But this other company, with the high scoring scrabble name, who are they to say lifetime?

/curmudgeon

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“Zoolz” is a name destined for the startup graveyard if I’ve ever seen one. Searchability shouldn’t be the only factor in selecting a company name!

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I haven’t, but thanks for pointing that one out. It looks useful and of course …

COMPATIBILITY
RAM: 512MB
Hard drive space: 200MB
Windows XP or later
Mac OS X 10.7 or later
Android & iOS (viewing only)

Yeah … I can’t help but notice something missing there.

For cloud storage, I’ve been pretty happy with DropBox and SpiderOak – both of which have excellent compatibility with my Linux systems. That said, I think I’m going to keep my hard drives for anything I wish to protect.

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Zoolz? No, I usually won.

Great, now I’m going to have that song stuck in my head the rest of the afternoon.

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They may have been around a while, done some dabbling in (cold storage) refrigerators back in the 80s

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“Store 1 TB of data for life, w/ no additional costs”

What they don’t mention is that is the live of the service and not the person.

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Exactly. I use both two drives at home AND encrypted cloud storage. HDD prices are too cheap these days.

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for me it’s the other way round: local “cloud” (i.e. a server running backuppc) and two external disks I swapped twice a week - one of them is always stored externally