I am also a cloud skeptic, I would never depend on such a service as a sole storage option, but as part of a backup scheme, offsite backup is a good thing. Several people I know lost their homes in this year's fires here in New Mexico and I realized how fast disaster can strike and that if you don't have time to grab the external drives and thumb drives, you can lose all of your backups along with all of the original files if you don't have some offsite backup. There are enough free services out there to backup important docs and stuff in multiple places, but I like the idea of being able to back up my media and other stuff that might be replaceable but that I would rather not have to replace if I didn't have to. I don't think data loss will be a big problem for most of these services. They have invested in multiple redundancy arrays and often in multiple locations making total permanent loss of data unlikely, but nobody will ever convince me to use offsite storage as my primary storage. Backup is one thing, this idea of computers and gadgets with no storage all using the cloud just doesn't work for my paranoid mind. I wouldn't be surprised to see the unlimited deal gain more limitations as time goes by. They already save themselves a lot of major space usage by limiting single file size to 2 Gb meaning that people can't back up their DVD and Blu-ray collections to their servers. But I wouldn't be surprised if they either started limiting the service, upped prices or grandfathered it out like the cellular companies are doing with unlimited data plans.
Regards, Chris From: Dave Bahr Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 6:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Has anyone used YouSendIt with Window Eyes? cloud storage scares me to begin with, but I tend to use dropbox or sendspace. And unlimited storage? that's a lot of storage and sounds too good to be true, but I'm a skeptic. What happens if a server goes down? they can make all the claims they want and have a million servers, they're still machines. Just my 41 cents worth. Dave c. bahr On 7/26/2011 5:23 PM, Chris Tekell wrote: > Apparently, they are adding cloud storage service starting with a 2 > Gb for free plan and topping off at unlimited storage for $14.99 a > month. I thought it might be worth checking out, but have never even > used their large file transfer service so I don't know much about > them. Any input from list members would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Chris If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the > original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list > and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending > your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive > it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You > can manage your list subscription at > http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
