Mimedia Sends Hard Drive for First Back Up: the Mailman Beats Your Upload Speed
October 18th, 2010
There are already lots of online backup solutions out there, but newcomer MiMedia is the first I’ve heard that has enough common sense to give customers the option to use a hard drive for the first backup. Most Internet connections have upload speeds that are not fast enough for gigabyte-level backups, and that’s where the postal service comes in.
MiMedia can send customers a 250GB hard drive –the company calls it a Shuttle Drive – through the mail. You fill it up, then send it back through its pre-paid box. Sure, 250GB may not be The drive’s maximum size is 1TB, so that alone may be enough to house your entire collection of data, including your music and videos in there. Best of all, your data gets backed up to your account the following day. No upload speed can top that.
As you can see in the gallery above, MiMedia also organizes your media files so you can easily access and view, watch or listen to them online. I just don’t know if this organization is mandatory or if it can be turned off. The only downer I can see about MiMedia is that it can be quite expensive.
Pricing starts at 25GB of storage for $5 (USD) per month or $50 per year, topping out at 2TB for $140 per month or $1300 per year. By contrast, Mozy offers unlimited storage at $5 a month and Carbonite offers the same deal for just $55 a year. Still, if you need your data backed up ASAP, MiMedia seems to be your best bet. Check out their website for more info.
[via Chip Chick]
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Hi,
I’m one of the founders of MiMedia.
First, thank you for the shout out. As a small company, we appreciate the good word.
Second, I did want to point out that our largest Shuttle Drive is 1TB, so we can handle some pretty big libraries.
Thank you again,
Fred Clark
That is impressive. Thanks for the clarification Mr. Clark.
I’ve tried mimedia and although the interface is clean — I’ve found their service slow (Probably why they need to send you a drive home vs carbonite or OpenDrive.com). Anyway, for the price I just don’t see it worth it (really $1300/yr for 2tb!?!?!). I’ve tried both Carbonite and Opendrive.com for backup and have to say I’d much rather use those two services — both for the price and the fact that OpenDrive has been very fast for me and has a ton of features I’ve found useful.
Anyway, I guess we’ll see where MiMedia is in a few months — otherwise competitors like Carbonite or OpenDrive.com will continue to see my money.
I would love to know which you find best….Carbonite or Open Drive? I have heard of Carbonite previously, but one thing I read about various services indicated that Open Drive had more features (the only thing I know that I like is the drag and drop…the other things I might not even notice….but on Carbonite I saw where they indicated backups happen automatically. I guess I want to know which is easiest to use?