It will be interesting to see if other backup services will follow. I've always wondered how they managed to keep prices so low. Considering the price of S3 (a

It will be interesting to see if other backup services will follow. I've always wondered how they managed to keep prices so low. Considering the price of S3 (asuming their costs are similar to Amazon's) then only the storage costs of 100Gb is $14/month (excluding bandwidth). Even if they store it very efficiently (erasure coding, compression, de-duplication etc) it would be very hard to reach break even at $5/month.