Store rarely used files for less

https://www.deepfreeze.io

by ghshephard • 12 years ago

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ghshephard• 12 years ago

Pretty good pricing - 100 Gigabytes/$15 year. I can think of a number of file collections that I'd like to have permanently archived, but that I don't need online immediately. Firmware Image, Software Installations, .ISO files, etc...

From the makers of LongAccess (30 year archival storage of photos) - who will store a GB of your photos for 30 years for 7 Euro. Built on top of Amazon Glacier.

Love these guys - they are relentless, and, despite what they say, pretty darn focussed.

Interesting little tidbit - They switched from the funky Euro Pricing for their LongAccess Photo Albums to (presumably) US dollar pricing for their Cold Storage.

vrypan4• 12 years ago

Correction: 100GB/$15/year, not 500GB!

Artemis2• 12 years ago

How does it compare with Amazon Glacier? (except for the abstraction of network and archive/restore fees)

vrypan4• 12 years ago

We want deepfreeze.io to integrate nicely with other "hot" cloud storage services. We started with Dropbox, but we want to offer the option to "freeze" files from Box, Google Drive, and others.

Future plans include search too.

paukiatwee• 12 years ago

Great service for storing rarely used files. I believe it is built in top of AWS Glacier.

However, since AWS Glacier charge for transfer of data, how this service prevent user abuse(such as transferring data in and out)?

vrypan4• 12 years ago

Yes, it is built on top of S3/Glacier.

There is no "prevention". Using our experience from building longaccess.com, we have managed to aggregate and in some ways predict usage and minimise the retrieval/transfer costs (on average).

biggerfisch• 12 years ago

Looks cool but I'm curious how it stacks up against services like Carbonite (for example) that actively monitor and look for changed files. If I update my archive/folder/etc that I want on deepfreeze, do I have to upload it myself or will that be done automatically?

vrypan4• 12 years ago

No, it's not a backup solution (even though it could be used as a secondary "backup" storage). Carbonite, Backblaze and the rest are much better at this.

But it's good if you don't want to keep files in your primary storage (i.e. your HDD) that backup services will see. A "cloud external disk" in a way.

strathmeyer• 12 years ago

Did you just... show me text on a webpage slower than I can read it...

Store rarely used files for less

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