Admittedly, it was an easy sell since I’ve been using Amazon’s S3 service on the job for the last 8 months for storing db backups so I’m familiar with the pros, cons, and costs and I had looked at Jungle Disk as a possible solution but disregarded it since it did not support Linux. Mike posted his thoughts about it and pointed out that they are giving some love to The Penguin.

After a quick spin on the free trial client I went ahead and signed up for the Plus service which allows you to browse your files online. Yes, you could use the S3 Firefox plugin but given the way that Jungle Disk writes folders as files it makes for some ugly viewing and the same goes for the S3Sync tools. Anyways, I look at the $12/year as a donation to keep the company afloat and developing.

To give people an idea of the cost I’m going to start with backing up my photos (33GB) and the last three years of eMusic (50GB) which the first transfer cost will be about $30 dollars and after that will cost about $12.50 a month.  This data grows at about 2GB a month which will tack on less than a dollar extra a month.  Not too bad of a proposition though I do see the potential for climbing up to around $35/month though the cost is worth the piece of mind it brings.