I have Dropbox on my Droid Incredible, though I have not used it yet.
However, I do have about 400 GB of files. Not really sure what all of
that is and I doubt I really need to have that much on the cloud, but it
would be nice ti just browse the entire amount from any PC. However,
the drop box could remove the need to move files back and forth between
home and work. These days I carry around a 750 GB usb HD in addition to
a 16 GB micro SD card on my keyring. And in addition to my phone and my
Kindle. Good grief.
I think I'll play with Dropbox though just to see how that works for me...
Thx.
On 9/17/2010 1:50 PM, Winterlight wrote:
At 09:42 AM 9/17/2010, you wrote:
1st, this is for home use. But I frequently work on "work" stuff at
home, so I do consider a lot of my "data" to be critical to me...but
I have a lot of it spread between multiple computers (work and home).
If you aren't talking about TBs of stored streaming video, or services
you need to run from a server, and your primary concern is data
access, and security, then it is going to be hard to beat Dropbox. It
is a online service where you install an app, it creates a folder in
my documents or where ever you want to put it called Dropbox and then
it continually syncs that folder with all your other computers that
have your Dropbox account installed, as well as providing a secure
website where you can log in and retrieve your data. So your data is
on any computers with internet access where you have installed dropbox
as well as being in the cloud. It is seamless, install and forget. It
doesn't get in the way, doesn't have any issues, it is the best, most
useful app I have seen in a decade. I have been using it for over a
year now and not a single issue or complaint.
There is all sorts of cool things you can do with it. Put a Truecypt
drive in your dropbox if your worried about security. There is a
public folder you can make available to others. You can create a
folder that you share with other specified peoples dropbox... this is
how I transfer data back and forth with my partner, and my sisters,
each in a private folder. Perfect for people who don't understand what
a upload is. It can install on a Iphone, a droid, a blackberry.
You get two GBs free and 100GB costs only 100 bucks a year. If you
aren't streaming multimedia, or running other services, then it isn't
worth the cost and hassle of a server, and of course if your house
burns down you loose your server but not your Dropbox. Your data is
always safe and available.
Here is a referral link that will get us both an extra 250megs free,
,give the free one a try and I think you will be impressed.
https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTE0NDEwOTE5
So, what would I like to do?
1) store all of my stuff in one place....so I would need RAID and/or
backup.
2) be able to stream music to any PC in the house, including phones
and slate computers (future)
3) be able to download stuff from/to my TIVO to/from it. (the TIVO
files do get big and I really don't need to back those up); but I
want my TIVOs to "see" this server.
4) sync folders between laptop and server (via wireless network)
Ultimately, it would be nice to just store all my stuff on it and
have it protected and backed up. Then get to it all from over
network connection from any PC.
I don't need to stream movies. Though neat to do, I can get by
without that.
Thanks.
On 9/17/2010 11:15 AM, Richard Quilhot wrote:
RAID would be recommended, if you will be storing critical data and
need
faster I/O responses.
The backup included with Win Server will be the bare basics, I would
go with
a more robust product like Backup Exec.
The bigger question is what do you want it to do?
Rick Q
[email protected]
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Anthony Q.
Martin<[email protected]>wrote:
So, no one here builds their on file servers? Or, are people
just using
NAS devices?
On 9/14/2010 8:00 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
I've got an extra PC here with a Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3GHz with
2GB ram in
a NZXT case. It's got a rather low end mobo but it does have 1Gbit
networking.
I'm thinking of turning this into a file server rather than buying
a NAS.
I'm thinking of Windows Server 2008 since I mainly have Windows
7 running
here.
Other than backups, what else can I get such a system to do? Does
Windows
Server include all of the necessary software or would I have to buy
something else for streaming, etc. I assume it has a network
backup tool.
Would some kind of raid configuration be wise for this? Pros&
Cons?
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