Got a data loss horror story? Share it with ElephantDrive…

We are looking for consumers and businesses that are willing to share their experiences with data loss and protection with ElephantDrive.  Every user story that gets published will receive a free ElephantDrive T-Shirt and the best story will receive a brand new 16 GB iPod Touch.

Please email all submissions to userstories@elephantdrive.com and make sure to include the following:

Describe an incident in which you lost critical data:

1. Was it the result of hardware failure?  Theft?  User error?  Fire, flood, or other natural disaster?
2. Was it personal or business related?

Describe your experience with ElephantDrive:

1. What do you use ElephantDrive for?
2. How does ElephantDrive help you?  What problem does it solve?
3. What is your favorite thing about ElephantDrive?  What is your least favorite thing about ElephantDrive?  If you could add feature(s), what would they be?
4. Any other comments / stories / suggestions?

Scheduled Maintenance Alert: October 8, 2008 10 PM PST

In our ongoing effort to provide you with the most reliable and high performance storage platform on the web, we will be performing system upgrades tonight starting at around 10 PM PST.  Maintenance should last no longer than an hour.

During this time there will be periods where connectivity is down (this should be a short time) and we will be adding additonal servers to support your file indexes (this may take a little longer).  The latter period will allow you to connect to the service, but no new backups will be performed.

What are we doing?  As mentioned above, we’re adding some more iron into our internally managed datacenter to augment the great performance we get from our integration with Amazon Web Services.  Additionally, we’re adding more bandwidth capacity from Tier 1 providers so you should recognize speed at an all time high after our work is complete.

I’ll be keeping the blog updated, so check back here if you have comments or concerns or, as always, just shoot us an email at support@elephantdrive.com.