What do you think you’ll do then
I bet that’ll shoot down your plane
It’ll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again
Maybe you’ll get a replacement
There’s plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain’t got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground-Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
I just ended a four-year relationship and I’m feeling wistful in an Elton John sort of way. You may have seen the announcement yesterday from EMC’s online backup service Mozy that it was ending unlimited storage plans. We paid about $150 a year to back up three computers and some 300 gigabytes of data to the cloud with Mozy. Under Mozy’s new pricing structure, which starts at $6/month for one computer and 50 GB of storage, we’d have to pay almost $400 a year. Ouch.
Coincidentally, Ars Technica’s John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin of the awesome 5by5.tv podcast network were just discussing the options for cloud-based backups on their past two shows. They and others seem to favor CrashPlan as the best cloud-based backup offering for Mac users (it also has clients for Windows and Linux users).
CrashPlan still offers unlimited plans. For 1 computer for one year, it’s $50 with discounts for ordering more years at once. For two to 10 computers, the family plan starts at $120 for a year. And as often happens in situations like this, CrashPlan saw an opening and they’re offering a 15% discount to former Mozy users.
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