blech:
posted on 2007/01/26 08:28
Matt Thommes describes how he stores his iTunes music library on Amazon's storage service, s3.
It covers the technology side, but doesn't mention the cost.
jerakeen and I had a bit of a think about s3 last week, and once you get to about 80GB, the cost per year starts hitting the sort of money that would pay for a music subsciption service instead.
(If you listen to eight hours of 128kb/s music, that's about half a gigabyte a day. Do that 20 days a month, and you'd be paying $2 for streaming. The problem is that's on top of the $12 a month to store 80GB, and the initial upload cost, which is another $16.)
hitherto:
for that price you can still give most of the cash to amazon, but spend it on a tiny portable drive instead. Which means you get your library on any machine, on or off-network. Oh, and 80gb free storage. And $25 in your pocket. And no recurring fees next year.
Of course, his whole schtick (now I read it) is to get rid of the external drive... but really, the WD passport is tiny, and lovely, and has massive capacity. And (says a man who takes little care with consumer electronics) also hard as nails. Backup's not that hard to achieve if you spend a modicum of time setting it up. Meh. "Colour me unconvinced", in short.
We hate you all. Yes, especially you. Sod off and DIE