Cloud storage
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- expat yorkshire
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Cloud storage
Looking for advice on the best provider for Cloud Storage .
I have 400Gb that I would like to store for long term back up .
I have 400Gb that I would like to store for long term back up .
Re: Cloud storage
Start here:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7388&p=107836&hili ... ox#p107836
ps. 400gb is a lot for cloud storage. Hope you have a super fast upload pipe.
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7388&p=107836&hili ... ox#p107836
ps. 400gb is a lot for cloud storage. Hope you have a super fast upload pipe.
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Re: Cloud storage
Was looking for more of an archive solution . I don't need day to day access to these files .
Has anybody used Amazon glacier storage ?
Has anybody used Amazon glacier storage ?
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Re: Cloud storage
I'd agree about the size. 400GB is an awful lot. Could you just have a network media server rather than paying for Cloud Storage?
I use Skydrive and am impressed with the simpleness of it, however, that's more useful for key documents that are synced across multiple computers/the cloud. 100GB of extra space is $65/year. Doesn't give an option for 400GB.
I use Skydrive and am impressed with the simpleness of it, however, that's more useful for key documents that are synced across multiple computers/the cloud. 100GB of extra space is $65/year. Doesn't give an option for 400GB.
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Re: Cloud storage
I have a 3 tb western digital external hard drive which I have been using as a primary backup source. After using it for a week it failed and I sent it back to Western digital , I took them 6 weeks to return it and now after only a few months it has failed again.
Although nothing is lost as I ( as i still have the original files ) It could have been a big issue, that was my reason for considering cloud storage.
Amazon Glacier, pricing is $0.01 per gigabyte per month but i dont know whether it has a user friendly interface
Baloo are you using this ?
Although nothing is lost as I ( as i still have the original files ) It could have been a big issue, that was my reason for considering cloud storage.
Amazon Glacier, pricing is $0.01 per gigabyte per month but i dont know whether it has a user friendly interface
Baloo are you using this ?
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Re: Cloud storage
At home I have an unraid server as the main storage plus a qnap 419P as a backup. Al important files are on Dropbox and skydive. All photos are on Picasa.
If I needed true backup on the cloud I'd probably go with Crashplan. But amazon glacier doesn't look bad either.
If I needed true backup on the cloud I'd probably go with Crashplan. But amazon glacier doesn't look bad either.
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Re: Cloud storage
I can't offer any advice as I am considering this at the moment as well. Just wanted to ask if you had those disks RAIDed.expat yorkshire wrote:I have a 3 tb western digital external hard drive which I have been using as a primary backup source. After using it for a week it failed and I sent it back to Western digital , I took them 6 weeks to return it and now after only a few months it has failed again.
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Re: Cloud storage
What is RAIDed?Sardonicus wrote:I can't offer any advice as I am considering this at the moment as well. Just wanted to ask if you had those disks RAIDed.expat yorkshire wrote:I have a 3 tb western digital external hard drive which I have been using as a primary backup source. After using it for a week it failed and I sent it back to Western digital , I took them 6 weeks to return it and now after only a few months it has failed again.
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Re: Cloud storage
I think you just answered the question.expat yorkshire wrote:What is RAIDed?
It's a way of duplicating your information, supposedly, in case of disk loss. Many people get multiple drives and set them to RAID1, so if you have 2 1tb drives configured as RAID1, you have 1tb of storage mirrored across the two drives.
You still need to back up the data though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
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