NETGEAR intros new switches, ReadyNAS cloud backup

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The ReadyNAS Vault online backup is very interesting, I hope this trend by HP and Netgear is followed by other manufacturers.

I wish the Vault lets us use our own Amazon S3 account (like with Jungle Disk). Pay only for what I use, with no limits -- $0.15/GB storage per month, $0.10/GB uploads, $0.17/GB downloads. Standard S3 file size limit of 5GB.

In that light, the Vault storage caps and roughly ~ $1/GB pricing doesn't sound as economic, unless you fill the limit and upload/download a lot each month...


P.S. I should clarify that ElephantDrive's standard products (outside of the ReadyNAS Vault) aren't necessarily priced out of line in their market, with competitors like Box.net, Dropbox, SugarSync, Syncplicity, etc. There are just different levels in storage caps, computer caps, etc.