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| V-Boat Member  54 Posts 2/06 |  Posted - Jun 5 2012 : 1:52AMHi y'all, I'm pretty new to the whole cloud thing (well, the "cloud" idea itself is pretty new I guess) and I'm looking for some good alternatives to backup/archiving on external hard drives. I have a constant fear that my hard drives will die and all of my old projects will be lost. I'd feel much more secure with a good cloud service. But which one do I go with? I figured I'd ask here because I figured some of you tech-minded people must have dabbled with cloud storage and have some opinions on your experiences. I can tell you that I would ideally like to find a good price for 1TB storage, with the possibility of more in the future. I will probably be using it more for archiving than back-up; that is, essentially like an external hard drive I can easily retrieve files from rather than a back-up that overwrites with whatever new versions of files are on my machine. I look forward to hearing your thoughts. And if there are any questions I should be asking about my needs that I haven't already addressed, please let me know. Cheers!  [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Jun 6 2012 : 1:11AM Plus, unless you have some kind of seriously fast business class internet connection that doesn't have the typical much slower upload speed than download speed that residential DSL usually gives you, I can't even guess how long it would take to transfer that much. Weeks? Maybe months? Are you sure whatever you're looking to archive is really that big, and so important that just keeping a couple of extra copies on external drives that aren't all kept in one place isn't enough?  [Link] |
| V-Boat Member 54 Posts 2/06 | Posted - Jun 10 2012 : 7:15PM Cheers! :) [Link] |
| cubesnake Senior Member 3858 Posts 10/02 | Posted - Jun 15 2012 : 4:16AM Cube [Link] |
Hardware  All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Jun 15 2012 : 12:13PM [Link] |
| V-Boat Member 54 Posts 2/06 | Posted - Jun 15 2012 : 11:48PM That's an excellent point-- If I recall now, I once read somewhere that if you have a hard drive that you just keep aside and never turn on, it has a much much smaller chance of going corrupt. (that is, hard drives go corrupt from use, not from sitting on a shelf) Can you tell me, to the best of your knowledge, is this correct? [Link] |
| Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Jun 16 2012 : 2:46AM [Link] |
| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Jun 22 2012 : 11:41PM I seriously don't trust The Cloud. What happened to that online file storage outfit (sorry, I can't remember the name) where the owner was arrested? Happened a couple months ago. I believe his site (and stuff on it) went *poof* Obviously Google and Amazon, et al, are less likely for that to happen, but shit happens. Stuff gets corrupted on their end just as it does on yours. Or "lost." Or someone decides your stuff is infringing, or illegal, or you owe money, and suddenly your account is locked and your stuff with it. I think you're better off getting a couple of plug-in hard drives, putting stuff on that, and refreshing it every so often. MUST HAVE stuff I'd have on hard drives, maybe a flash drive, and burned on CD/DVD-ROM. Chances of everything being lost at the same time is much, much less, and you have direct access, not some 3rd party. [Link] |
| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Jun 22 2012 : 11:45PM Internet businesses are like any other businesses that provide some important product or service: you're at the mercy of whomever controls the On/Off switch. [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Jun 23 2012 : 1:59PM [Link] |
| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Jun 23 2012 : 2:23PM [Link] |
| ninja1 Senior Member 2939 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Jun 23 2012 : 2:49PM Edited by - ninja1 on 6/23/2012 4:11:36 PM [Link] |
| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Jun 23 2012 : 4:21PM [Link] |
| ninja1 Senior Member 2939 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Jun 23 2012 : 4:44PM HDD (stored at home) Another HDD (saved at the office or safe deposit box) Another HDD (saved somewhere else) DVD USB Flash drives CF memory cards A server at home Print everything on paper and store in a file cabinet etc etc. As redundancy options go, cloud storage is waaaay down low on my list, for reasons: 1) You need a super-duper fast internet connection to make upload times tolerable. 2) The monthly storage fee. 3) You never know when Dept of Justice and MPAA will get itchy fingers again and who will be the next target. 4) Businesses collapse all the time. [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Jun 23 2012 : 5:10PM [Link] |
| cubesnake Senior Member 3858 Posts 10/02 | Posted - Jun 24 2012 : 2:42AM Cube [Link] |
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