Archive for the ‘Storage’ Category

Carbonite will store it

Monday, September 18th, 2006

Carbonite seemed too good to be true to me. They advertise that they will store any amount of data for you for just $49 a year. It is mainly a backup system rather than an online file-system but unlimited storage at that price is incredible. They do note that you are limited to uploading 2gb per-day (15gb per-day down) so you can’t murder their system if you have a huge pipe.

Thinking I might have missed some fine print I emailed them and asked if I could backup my 350gb of photos and music to their service. A few hours later and I had their reply; yes, no problem, go for it. The only small catch is that after your first 50gb is uploaded they start limiting your upload rate. Not sure how much and I guess I will find out “soon” enough. “Soon” because 50gb is going to take awhile to reach.

The only wrinke in the Caronite solution for me is that it is Windows only. No Mac or Linux version yet.

S3Fox

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

S3Fox

S3Fox is an extension for Firefox that gives you an FTP like view of your Amazon S3 account. You can upload and download files, view their URLs, create “directories” (S3 doesn’t technically support directories within buckets and so this has to be faked) and set the Access Control List on items.

S3 + Subversion

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Something I’d like to see is a Subversion repository stored on S3. From the little I know of how Subversion stores data I don’t think it would be that easy. You wouldn’t want svn sending the entire single repo file up and down to S3 everytime. You’d want the individual items and their deltas being sent.