I tried dropbox, and I like it. It installs a small service that runs in the background, and creates a virtual folder that is actually storing the files on Dropbox's servers on the Internet. It is very slick and nice that they give you 2GB of space for free, basically you can access it from anywhere.
Amazon.com is basically leveraging their EC2 networked storage system with a product called
CloudDrive in which you can upload files to them and they store them on their servers, whether it's documents, MP3s or anything you want. Not as slick as Dropbox but they give you 5 gigabytes free. Buy an album and you get 20GB free, and you can purchase additional space.
I did a mark files in the common control and did a send, and uploaded over 350 files to them in one operation, it all runs in the background so you can do other things in your browser while the uploads continue.
The 450 megabytes that my books and related files use are stored on (1) the computer I'm using (2) my old computer as a file server [this is the primary repository and all other storage is backup] (3) on a CD-ROM (4) on a jumpdrive attached to a lanyard that can go around my neck (5) on Dropbox (6) on Amazon's clouddrive.
I still use my old computer as the primary location so that (1) I'm used to a much slower transfer speed for save and retrieval than I get from saving it locally (on this computer) and (2) to encourage me to keep the files somewhere than only on the current computer. Dropbox actually seems faster than storing it on my local network, I might start using it as the primary location, it seems almost local it's so fast.
Extra space on Clouddrive is a bit on the high side, 100 GB is $100 a year and 1TB is a grand a year. At that price, I could simply buy a 1 TB hard drive every other month - which would cost $600 - and rotate them on a regular basis.
No, even cheaper. Buy any inexpensive used computer, typically under $100. Connect it either by wired internet or by a cheap $9 Tenda USB wireless internet . (I had one plugged into my computer when I fired up Ubuntu Linux; it recognized the Tenda adapter and connected to my router automatically!) Plug in a 1GB drive and have it run as a backup system.
Net cost: $300 the first year, $100 each year thereafter (and declining as drive costs drop further) and I can simply replace the drives every six months, even though the warranty on new drives is five years. If anything goes wrong, everything is still backed up redundantly AND you get a brand new drive, warranted either for 90 days or the remainder of the previous warranty, whichever is longer.
I tried dropbox, and I like it. It installs a small service that runs in the background, and creates a virtual folder that is actually storing the files on Dropbox's servers on the Internet. It is very slick and nice that they give you 2GB of space for free, basically you can access it from anywhere.
Amazon.com is basically leveraging their EC2 networked storage system with a product called [url=http://amazon.com/clouddrive]CloudDrive[/url] in which you can upload files to them and they store them on their servers, whether it's documents, MP3s or anything you want. Not as slick as Dropbox but they give you 5 gigabytes free. Buy an album and you get 20GB free, and you can purchase additional space.
I did a mark files in the common control and did a send, and uploaded over 350 files to them in one operation, it all runs in the background so you can do other things in your browser while the uploads continue.
The 450 megabytes that my books and related files use are stored on (1) the computer I'm using (2) my old computer as a file server [this is the primary repository and all other storage is backup] (3) on a CD-ROM (4) on a jumpdrive attached to a lanyard that can go around my neck (5) on Dropbox (6) on Amazon's clouddrive.
I still use my old computer as the primary location so that (1) I'm used to a much slower transfer speed for save and retrieval than I get from saving it locally (on this computer) and (2) to encourage me to keep the files somewhere than only on the current computer. Dropbox actually seems faster than storing it on my local network, I might start using it as the primary location, it seems almost local it's so fast.
Extra space on Clouddrive is a bit on the high side, 100 GB is $100 a year and 1TB is a grand a year. At that price, I could simply buy a 1 TB hard drive every other month - which would cost $600 - and rotate them on a regular basis.
No, even cheaper. Buy any inexpensive used computer, typically under $100. Connect it either by wired internet or by a cheap $9 Tenda USB wireless internet . (I had one plugged into my computer when I fired up Ubuntu Linux; it recognized the Tenda adapter and connected to my router automatically!) Plug in a 1GB drive and have it run as a backup system.
Net cost: $300 the first year, $100 each year thereafter (and declining as drive costs drop further) and I can simply replace the drives every six months, even though the warranty on new drives is five years. If anything goes wrong, everything is still backed up redundantly AND you get a brand new drive, warranted either for 90 days or the remainder of the previous warranty, whichever is longer.