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How much of your terabyte is yours? The duplication seems to be at least three times (more?), so that would be 333GB. Note: it doesn't matter how finely you cu
by 6ren 14y ago
How much of your terabyte is yours? The duplication seems to be at least three times (more?), so that would be 333GB. Note: it doesn't matter how finely you cut it up, you need duplication to avoid loss.
It can be ameliorated by the cloud tricks of compression and git-like copy-detection across nodes (people downloaded the same movie, music, image, document, software etc) giving aggregate savings.
Of course, most people won't use their full quota initially, and meanwhile more adopters come online with fresh excess capacity... a kind of ponzi-scheme/chain-letter (to be fair, as drive prices fall over years, units will likely become 2TB, 4TB etc).
- ryankshaw 14y agofrom the kickstarter page "For $10 per month, you get a full Terabyte (1000 Gigabytes) of storage you can use anywhere, any time". the devices' actual capacity is larger.
- the_paul 14y agoThe whole terabyte is yours. The device has extra capacity to account for the rest.
- varikin 14y agoexcept you can't deduplicate against what other people have backed up (multiple people backing up the same movie, etc) and encrypt your backups. If my backups are being put on a device owned by someone else, I want that encrypted so they can't read it.