I have several 4TB internal hard drives, I go through an extra 12TB worth of hard drives every year. I collect TV recordings.
I also have several eSATA hard drives.
I'm looking for a cheap and reliable online storage company. I tried CrashPlan however their software sucks. The main problem is that I have a 2MB/s upload speed but it was only uploading at 300 Kbps. Their software also gives script errors and in their documentation it says it can use up to 80% of your CPU. Why the heck would it need to do that, it's just uploading files not bloody encoding them!
CrashPlan and similar companies state that they genuinely offer unlimited storage subject to fair use) so that's not a problem.
Ideally the company could support local backup where I can send a hard drive to them for them to backup and they send it back but it doesn't matter if they don't support that. I'm in the UK by the way.
Another concern of mine is what happens if a previously backed up drive changes it's drive letter as sometimes Windows changes the drive letters when you disconnect and reconnect drives. Will the system recognize it as a new drive to be backed up or will it recognize that it's already been backed up. Or does it just remember the volume label?
Can anyone recommend any good companies?