How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

I'm looking at this:

http://www.tarsnap.com/

HN has mentioned this several times in the past. I'm now looking at the prior comments about this.

Tarsnap's great but it's a backup service not a sync service and is very unsuited for use as a sync service.

If anything is overpriced, tarsnap is -- or was, last time I compared prices. Also picodollars are a bit opaque.

I really wanted to use it and hoped it'd come out reasonably compared to alternatives, but I actually found none except buying a hard disk + raspberry pi myself and hosting it at a friend's place. That was cheaper by about a factor 2, which (at 3TB data) was too much to ignore for my student budget. This was about two years ago though.

tarsnap is awesome, but it's in no way a replacement for dropbox - their use cases and scenarios where you can use them are entirely different.

That's probably the first time anyone's ever complained about tarsnap being too expensive, honestly. 'tptacek & 'patio11 bang on a lot about it being too cheap, and they're right. tarsnap costs a pretty minimal amount over the underlying S3 storage, but I'm sure if you don't really care about 99.999999999% durability a hard drive on a pi is great too.