When I first heard about Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service I knew I should sign up. Basically it's a place to securely store your computer files on Amazon's server farm. You have to get a front-end program to use it -- I spent a double sawbuck on Jungle Disk which works just fine and has a simple enough back-up function. Once I signed up, it costs 15 cents a gigabyte per month. Jungle Disk creates an "X" drive and will automatically backup my files to that drive every day.
As good as I try to be about making backups, I only get around to it every few weeks or so. Plus, while backing up to an external hard drive protects me from disk failure, what if something happened to the external drive? I pay renter's insurance every month; paying "data insurance" is well worth it.
Speaking of external hard drives, my trusty Maxtor was starting to run out of space. So I picked up this LaCie 500GB drive for all of $120 at Newegg. Half a terabyte should hold me for a while....
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Awesome; thanks for the tip on the external drive; I'm in the market for one and that sounds like a sweet spot of ridiculous size and reasonable price point. (When buying electronics, you should really let Moore's Law work for you.)
And I'm sure Amazon won't let the government go rooting for those files for any reason. Not without a warrant, at least. Or, like, a note. From someone.
Comment #1 :: link :: November 14, 2007 02:15 AMDon't worry, my secret anti-gubmint manifestos are steganographically encoded inside a photo of Richard Nixon that I keep on a flash drive that is encased in the crystal egg of a Roc on top of Mount Doom.
Oh, and I signed it "Colin Lingle." I hope you don't mind.
Comment #2 :: link :: November 14, 2007 11:44 AM
