BLUF: no, I wouldn't use this service – the various and sundry cloud backup offerings (from personal to business to enterprise) are just way too good
What you're describing could've been a decent business idea 10-20 years ago: indeed, Iron Mountain offered (offers?) more-or-less exactly what you're describing … though businesses would usually pay for the media themselves, and "merely" pay Iron Mountain for storage of said media
But in an era of ubiquitous, cheap, always-on, multiplibacked-up cloud vendors … this is an anacronistic offering.
How would you compete on price, convenience, and speed when you can pay Dropbox $10/mo for 2TB? Or Apple $10/mo for 2TB? Or Backblaze $6/mo for "unlimited" storage? Or Hetzner €10/mo for 2TB? Or any of myriad other providers?
You can compete in online or offline storage – but you need to have a really solidly-differentiated offering to compete against The Big Boys™
January 07, 2020 at 10:52AM
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