Mozy kills unlimited backup, time to take matters into your own hands

Set-it-and-forget-it backups to the cloud seemed like a great idea at one point. With several providers offering good annual rates on unlimited storage, a silent, overnight upload was a good way to make sure your data was protected and stored offsite. Now, however, Mozy has dropped its unlimited plan and its prices are jumping to a level where cloud backup just doesn't make sense for users with a ton of data -- and it says its competitors will soon follow suit.

CNET's Stephen Shankland says that the 600GB of data he has backed up with Mozy will now cost him around $60 per month to store. That's a huge chunk of change over the course of a year -- especially when you can pick up 1TB hard drives for around $75. I only signed up for Mozy last month, but I'm going to bring home a USB SATA hard drive dock like the Thermaltake BlacX and a pair of 1TB drives and let Windows 7's built-in backup tool take care of my data from now on.

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