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kenkeniff

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#115430 25-Mar-2013 20:33
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I'm currently going through the process of setting up my Google Drive account and sync'ing about 100GB of personal data to it.

Unfortunately based on my broadband speed I've estimated it's going to take over a week with my PC running 24/7 to sync all my data from my home PC to Google's cloud.

This got me thinking; would anyone make use of a local service where you could courier a hard drive / USB containing your data and have them upload it to a [FTP/WebDav/Cloud] server of your choosing using an enterprise-grade internet connection (100-1000mb/s)?

In the reverse you could request a large [File/Torrent/ISO etc] to be downloaded for you and couriered to you on USB.

I think it could be a useful service for making - for example - initial uploads to services like Google Drive, DropBox, Amazon Glacier etc.

Assuming issues around security / encryption / potential for abuse were addressed, who would use such a service?

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kenkeniff

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  #790346 1-Apr-2013 22:01
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I discovered Amazon actually provide this service for ~US$85 + storage media costs + shipping.

See: http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/

You can ship your USB drive and have it uploaded/download to/from Amazon S3/EBS/Glacier.

From there you should be able to move it around the net fairly easily using their large pipes (even if it means firing up a Windows EC2 instance and installing some client software).

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