Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/03

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Subject: [Leica] Storage options: Amazon Simple Storage Services
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:11:40 -0500

> At 02:45 PM 12/3/2009, you wrote:
>> To make a long story short, if you store 1 gb (just lost this letter
>> because I hit the command-4 to get a $ instead of the alt-4 and had to
>> start over ... thinking about squirting some epoxy glue under that
>> right-hand command key) 1 gb will cost 15 cents a month, 10 gb (real
>> careful now) $ (made it) $1.50 a month.
>> 
>> Nice back-up solution. If anyone can think of serious down-sides, I'd
>> appreciate hearing about it. I'm pretty reliant on it.
>> 
>> Daniel
> 
> Daniel -
> 
> The only downside to me is the price.  If I measured my photo storage
> in gigabytes, it might not be too bad, but mine are in
> terabytes.  Right now I have 10 1tb external hard drives hooked up
> and those are just the active ones (and their backups).  The SmugMug
> vault through Amazon costs 22 cents per gigabyte per month, plus 30
> per gigabyte data transfer in, and 51 cents per gigabyte data
> transfer out, plus a $1 per month service charge.  I'm afraid that
> would add up in a hurry.
> 
> About your switch to Mac - I'm considering the same thing.  Other
> than keys being in the wrong place, have you found any other
> stumbling blocks with the Mac?  Is it more stable than your old
> Windows machine?  That's all I'm interested in - stability.  I want
> to turn it on and have it work.
> 
> Tina



The truly smart, nice, funny and those ones filled with humility people are
the Mac people.
Welcome to the fold!

Mark William Rabiner





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