Cloud Storage

[DampCat]

Hey Guys

I'm wondering about cloud. I had a HDD fail last week and today my phone is farked taking everything with it. I know there are two types of people in the world. Those who backup, and those who will... but it got me to thinking, no HDD is safe really. Where does it end? Backup ofthe backup in case the backup fails... then backup that backup... it's silly really.

Does anyone use a simple cloud storage option online? I just want something with a really simple interface. i know i could use my own FTP or whatever but honestly i just want a no fuss "click here to upload this item, click here to download it" job.

Any thoughts?

 

[panyan]

personally i do this

Phone - android phone so all my contacts and everything are stored on my Gmail account, so if i lose the phone, i still have everything and from the HTC site, i can even do stuff like wipe the whole phone

Computer:

- i have two 2tb drives what are mirroring eachother with all my big pieces of data on (games, music, films, etc)

- i have an SSD which i have cloned onto a backup 250gb drive incase the ssd decides not to play ball and i can just easily swap the drive for the backup

- my serious work documents are all on my dropbox account which continuously sync the files on the dropbox folder on my machine to my online account which i can access from anything with internet access. It is a 2gb free account, but after using my HTC phone, adding people via referals and doing extra stuff to get more free space, my account now gives me 12GB of space for free

 

[Dist]

Personally I use 2 forms of cloud storage. Firstly I use Dropbox, but I only use this for smaller files/documents and mainly as an easy way to allow any of my devices to easily access the small amounts of frequently access data, such as stuff I'm currently working on.

For stuff that is large or not frequently access I use my Amazon Cloud Drive. First 2 GB is free and as it's from Amazon I know it will always be around and will have good security.

If you want to store many GB of data then that becomes more complicated as most cloud storage options provide <2 GB for free, and the price they charge for additional space is often quite excessive.

If you want the simplest option I would have to say dropbox, simply because you can set up a dropbox folder on all your devices linked to the same account, and just put any files to be backed up into that folder.