Fabrik hit us up with a double dose of news today, so we'll get right to it. First up is the firm's new line of SimpleTech Pro / Duo Pro Drives ($229.99 to $799.99), which are aimed at digital media enthusiasts, prosumers and business users and come equipped with up to 2TB of storage space, eSATA and USB 2.0 connections. Next we're looking at the outfit's
Ultimate Backup, which is hailed as "a simple, affordable and secure way to protect your most coveted content both offsite and online." For under five bucks a month, the service provides users with "unlimited capacity to securely store important files and media collections remotely and automatically," and moreover, all files are "encrypted with 128-bit SSL encryption while in transit, with an option for a private encryption key, to the company's remote 448-bit Blowfish encrypted servers (in other words, it's secure)." For more details, be sure and give the read links below a gander.
Read - SimpleTech drives
Read - Ultimate Backup service
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dankoozy @ Oct 15th 2007 3:08PM
Online storage is such a scam. If I had a 2TB external drive I wouldn't need any either. Most people's including my own upstream rate would make it far too painfully slow anyway. If I uploaded at full speed all day I could send maybe 1-1.5TB a year. and when simpleTech gets bought out/goes bust/decides online storage isn't worth it there will be a big rush to get the data off their servers.
I think one would be better off buying a NAS and putting it with someone you can trust - you never know with these cowboys and the particular encryption scheme used might not be too hard to crack a few years down the line when everyones watch is powered by a quantum computer on a chip from Guangdong that costs $.005 of a cent to make
mike503 @ Oct 15th 2007 3:37PM
Looking at the manual and screenshots (and pricing) it appears that their Fabrik Unlimited is *identical* to Mozy. As in, the same software UI even.
John David @ Oct 15th 2007 3:38PM
The ultimate backup service sounds like a rebrand of Mozy's service. The FAQs from both sites read almost exactly the same.
Cedric @ Oct 15th 2007 5:35PM
Actually for some answers they are word-for-word the same. Compare http://mozy.com/support with http://backup.fabrik.com/support/faq.pdf
Looks a bit shady to me.
greg @ Oct 15th 2007 4:31PM
2TB. I dont' even have 1...
Zachariah Crow @ Oct 15th 2007 5:32PM
This only works on Windows machines. No Mac users need apply.
suburb @ Oct 16th 2007 1:44AM
Mozy works on mac(http://mozy.com/mozy/mac) I currently use it and love it. Never have to worry about a drive crashing, a fire or someone stealing my stuff. Yes, it takes a while to upload (I currently have about 150GBs of data/video/music/etc and it took about a month to get it online), but it sure beats being SOL if anything happened where a back up drive got lost somehow. $5/month really can't be beat either for unlimited storage and a little peace of mind with very little investment or effort...
Ihar `Philips` Filipau @ Oct 15th 2007 5:54PM
I wonder why they keep doing the stuff.
I'm still looking for simple RAID 1 based NAS for two hard drives. Because that what's fitting for my home. All the producers have some or (1) extremely sophisticated stuff to offer or (2) dumb primitive crap - but no thing providing basic inexpensive reliability and OS independence like that.
Most devices start at $400 what is really not a starter for home use.
rsync user @ Oct 15th 2007 7:51PM
I can't imagine anyone serious using any of these "unlimited online data storage" for free of for X dollars, where X is usually under 10 ... they're going to oversell the crap out of it, throttle the bandwidth to a trickle and god help you if you need to talk to them about anything.
And then there's the fact that they are all Windows only. I'll take my (relatively) expensive rsync.net account any day. I know how much space I get, I can use it with any standard tool I want (I use rdiff-backup and duplicity, which I highly recommend) and they aren't diving head first into the hype machine.
ItsTheOMGShow @ Oct 15th 2007 8:17PM
Rsync charges $1.6 per megabyte.. per month. Are you kidding me? You're getting ripped off! Funny to see how you go and try to justify your foolish judgment by claiming you're avoiding the hype. LOL
rsync user @ Oct 16th 2007 3:21AM
That's gigabye, not megabyte. GB = gigabyte.
And in reality, I pay 80 cents per GB because they give a 50% off discount to students and educators.
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