magiccarpetride;584111 Wrote: > To simplify it a bit for you, let me just say that I'm using the Amazon > S3 and I'm being billed at the rate of 15 cents per gigabyte per month. > This amounts to $1.80 per year. For that cost, I can store at least 3 > CDs (in FLAC format) and stream them from anywhere in the world. I > prefer to keep my hand-picked favorite music out in the cloud (in > addition to my hard copies -- i.e. the originally purchased CDs, plus > the soft copies on my auxiliary storage at home/office). > > To my mind, the convenience and the extra peace of mind (never need to > worry about safety backups and the headaches associated with restoring > your data warehouse if the disc crashes/CDs get damaged), are worth the > added expenditure. > > Also keep in mind that the prices are bound to go down -- there will > never be a point in the future when it will cost you more to store your > content in the cloud than it's costing you today.
Thanks, I'll take two aspirin and call you in the morning :) -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 (oops) -> Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82766 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
