LaCie offers CloudBox; backup locally and in the cloud

It all sounded fine until...

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You can buy the CloudBox product in 100GB capacity, which includes a one year cloud backup contract. The CloudBox costs $199.99.

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$2 per GB is bad enough, but a 100GB limit? You might as well just use one of the various free clouds. I could maybe see $200 if it was 1TB; they would still be making huge profit that way, but the convenience might make it worthwhile.

Originally posted by KillerBug:

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$2 per GB is bad enough, but a 100GB limit? You might as well just use one of the various free clouds. I could maybe see $200 if it was 1TB; they would still be making huge profit that way, but the convenience might make it worthwhile.

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Agreed. There are freeware options that would allow 100gb cloud storage. LaCie is out of their minds.

Is it just me or does LaCie seem to be trying out a Google-style video? I've never seen any other videos from LaCie so I don't know if this is just how they do things, but it just struck me as a bit googly.

Are you sure the limit isn't the size of the external hard drive you are buying. Yeah that is still ridiculassly small...Just to understand how nuts their pricing is...assuming you want your data out there for more than one year...what's the cost then???

I mean what part of the $200 is the hardware and what we paying for the cloud?

Thing that worries me about free services is many of them go belly up (in this case with your data) due to not making any money...being free and all...

Originally posted by dEwMe:

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Are you sure the limit isn't the size of the external hard drive you are buying. Yeah that is still ridiculassly small...Just to understand how nuts their pricing is...assuming you want your data out there for more than one year...what's the cost then???

I mean what part of the $200 is the hardware and what we paying for the cloud?

Thing that worries me about free services is many of them go belly up (in this case with your data) due to not making any money...being free and all...

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I'm sure its only a 100gb local hdd :(. I tried to go to the LaCie site to see if they had prices listed, but they wanted a registration number that you apparently get when you purchase the cloudbox.

As for part costs. A nice 100gb hdd is MAYBE $30 or $40 bucks. Plus a nice enclosure might tack on another $50. (of course these are consumer prices) And as Killerbug said, $2/gb is just out of this world pricing.

You are correct about there being a bit of a risk in using freeware storage. Although, if you look around and find a nice program that is backed by a stable corporation then there shouldn't really be any problems. Personally I use dropbox - it is a nice solution if you just need to transfer files in between computers quickly.

If you want to get 100gbs of cloud storage then look into a service called Wuala. Wuala is actually owned by LaCie (haha) so it is stable. Wuala allows you to get up to 100gbs of online storage, the catch is Wuala is a quasi-p2p program. You can get 100gbs by giving 100gbs of storage, Wuala works by turning 100gbs of your hdd into a 'server' and storing data there - of course its encrypted. Its my understanding that it places several copies of the files you upload in computers all over, so if one or two go down you still have your data. Plus I think there is something to do with there Servers, but its been awhile since I researched it.

Wuala (free) + a 250gb hdd (50 bucks) + a enclosure with Ethernet (70 bucks) = your own personal cloud box for 120 bucks and no renewal fees.