Comcast Secure Backup and Share

A few months ago I posted about Comcast's lack of offering any kind of online backup product to their customers. At the time there were a few articles floating around the web stating that Comcast would be offering Online backup soon but the pricing structure seemed a bit out of line with the competition.

Just today I found a new page on the Comcast Security Site offering Online Backup to its customers. The product is called Comcast Secure Backup and Share (powered by Mozy). It appears Comcast has partnered with Mozy to offer their software to its customers with a couple additional features that I will discuss later in this post.

I was a but surprised though that Comcast Secure Backup and Share has a bit different pricing structure than the Software you get directly from Mozy.

Mozy Offers:

2 GB - Free
Unlimited Backup - $55 year

Comcast Secure Backup and Share Offers:

2 GB - Free
50 GB - $50 year
200 GB - $100 year

So if you can get the same product directly from Mozy for less money what is the incentive to purchase the product from Comcast?

Multuple Users - With regular Mozy for each additional PC you need to backup you need to pay an additional $50/year. With Comcast Backup you can add 6 additional users/computers to the backup plan.
File Sharing - Access any of your backed up files from any PC or mobile device through the Comcast Vault application

The key feature for me is the ability to add multiple PCs. This is a feature that none of the online backup providers offer. I currently have Carbonite Online backup running on one PC in my home that has about 15GB backed up. On another PC, I am using Mozy's free 2GB plan. So since I am currently well under the 50GB limit for the Comcast Secure Backup and Share plan it would make a lot of sense to move to the Comcast plan and have everything managed under one account as well as have the ability to easily access my files from any device. Unfortunately I am signed up with Carbonite for another 6 or so months so I will have to wait. In the meantime if anyone out there is using Comcast Secure Backup and Share let me know if you like it and if it will be worthwhile for me to make the switch.