The cloud drive service is targeted at consumers, rather than
businesses. So, how many consumers would be willing to spend $1000 / yr
for 1 TB of off-line backup in these days of super dirt cheap TBs and
still slow upload speeds?
Interestingly, you can get 5GB from Amazon, 5 GB from SugarSync, and 2
GB from Dropbox without doing anything beyond opening an account. For
short term projects, that's plenty of cloud storage. It's a boom for
anyone who takes work between multiple locations. The end of the
thumb/flash drive.
On 3/30/2011 7:16 AM, Stan Zaske wrote:
Just saw this over at HardOCP:
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:51:38 -0500, Winterlight
<[email protected]> wrote:
small business, like medical corporations, Law firms, Architectural,
Development, companies ...any that makes a lot of money and doesn't
have a dedicated IT department. Being able to auto backup, off site,
incrementaly, saftly, with a reliable source for a grand a year is a
bargain
At 06:02 PM 3/29/2011, you wrote:
This seems weird to me. Amazon is offering 1TB of cloud for $1000/yr.
So, you can keep your stuff backed up & sync'ed for $1000/yr. Hehe.
Who exactly is going to go for this? For way less than that, I can
get several 1TB HDs and cycle backup drives to/from the office or
even a safe in the PO. And who has fast enough upload speeds to
make backing this data up online feasible?
While I like using the cloud, I can't see this model. Well, maybe
it would work for all new stuff you create starting today. At that
rate, the backups would be small and gradual.
Do you guys think we will all come to depend on the cloud for
backing up all our data? Does it make sense for us data hogs? Hey,
I know it doesn't make sense for some of YOU data hogs! :)
