Originally Posted By: rharv
If we're veering off to archive storage, Cloud storage for the win.

Dropbox, Google Docs, etc offer fairly large free storage and are replicated (very little risk of loss of data due to hardware of any kind)

A $10/month (approx) hosting package at 1and1.com can easily be negotiated to unlimited storage (again replicated by them; no worries).

Many options. Having a copy off-site is safer anyway. Add in replication and backups as part of the deal and it is a very easy to have plenty of backed up and redundant storage space.

Then you can look into Rackspace and the slew of other actual Cloud services and make up your mind.

I haven't burned a DVD or CD backup in years, unless it was for a temporary transfer (give Joe Doe a copy of his website in current state).


I do have access to (and help support) Enterprise Cloud/backup systems, and understand the value. I also see value in 'free' for home users. Depends on your needs.
1and1 would likely notice 2 terrabytes being uploaded, but 100 gig of space on their servers has not ever been mentioned to me. Plus unlimited websites .. for about $10/month.
Maybe I got lucky, but they do have some nice packages.



Veering off the topic of SSD pricing ,but hitting right on the nose of storage pricing in general. Now I have 105GB onedrive for free right now for 2 years from the time I purchased my new HP win10 computer. They started that promotion in March 2016 and ended that promotion in March 2016. WHY because Cloud storage is actually very expensive for the host company and for the consumer. Are you speaking of LandR? Storing your music data 10 dollars a month unlimited? When you pay for the Mastering of each song as I understand it? like a studio storing your master tape, hoping you may want to remix and remaster in the future. OR some other site landl?
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Plus unlimited websites .. for about $10/month.
THIS IS Loss leader pricing to gain a user base, only to up the price when rolled out to the mass market. Case in point 1 year ago SoundCLoud Pro was $69 a year for unlimited storage, now its $63 a year for double the storage of the free product, and unlimited is $135.00/year.

Are you going to pay somebody $9 a month for 10GB general file backup (industry standard, google drive , dropbox, onedrive) then pay soundcloud $135.00 year, and LandR (which is DiskMasters) $120.00 a year. Or Purchase a 10TB SSD in 2017 for roughly $400.00 and learn how to back it up to another 5TB SSD $200.00 nightly 2/1 compression. Investing in hardware will always work out better in the long run.

Don't tell me about how safe you are with say "Microsoft cloud storage backing up your files." NOBODY IS WATCHING YOUR FILES ON THE INTERNET before long there will be massive crashes and pirating of personal data, due to low priced storage offerings. My OneDrive crashed, April 1 2016 it started triangular replication as MS put it, making copies of every file I had in the cloud and putting it within a subfolder of a random folder on the drive. Eventually I ran out of space on my onedrive and the replication started going into the "cloud recycle bin." This is replicated to the local recycle bin, and it filled up my C: drive (where the local recycle bin resides.) This caused an error message "You are out of space on your System drive C:\" I was not a happy PC user. I broke the Onedrive replication and then inspected more than 20,000 files in my recycle bin moving them to the D drive one by one "until I had at least 10% empty space on the C drive at which point I shut down the computer for the night. In the morning I rebooted. Unfortunately, my onedrive had replicated from my tablet over night. You guessed it "You are out of space on your System drive C:\"another couple days cleaning out my recycle bin. Microsoft support sent me an email April 5th stating that they had detected a critical OneDrive error that could only be solved by my attention to said "TRIANGULAR REPLICATION?" 5 days after it happened, 4 days after I opened a support tick with the onedrive support team. Again nobody is watching your data on the cloud, if you think they are you are fooling yourself.

Last edited by dga; 04/25/16 05:10 PM.
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