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Regardless of which solution you go for, will usage of 'The Cloud' for personal data backup be constrained by existing broadband arrangements ?

If, for example, I have 20GB of personal data (photos, music, etc.) that I want to back up to 'The Cloud' each month, and I have a, say, 30GB data allowance for upload and download, am I now, in effect, limited to 10GB ?
 
Use proper backup software that only uploads the new/change stuff on the pc.

There is no need to backup the entire 20gb , just what's changed.

Either way, €50 will be a 320gb external hard drive. Far more sensible way to keep backups than a cloud.
 
Either way, €50 will be a 320gb external hard drive. Far more sensible way to keep backups than a cloud.
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Unless you have a fire or burglary etc.
 
I'm not, yet, thinking of using it for myself, but industry seems to have decided that it's the new new thing. There was an article in The Register about how apple's announcement spells the begining of the end fo hard drive manufacturers, like Seagate & Western Digital.

For me, it's about trust. Once you've entrusted your data to a third party, you're at their mercy for safety and access. 2 external hard drives seem to still be the way to go, stored at seperate locations.
 
umop3p!sdn said:
Unless you have a fire or burglary etc.
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You don't keep your backup with your main pc.

You keep it in your desk at work , or the boot of the car.

Hard drives are going to be a museum piece in 10 years , but that's because of solid state drives , not the cloud.
 
I suppose you could take your hard drive out of your car every time you want to do a back up, and put it back when you've finished. Your car could get stolen, which might also be a security risk.
 
If you move your valued data off your PC to an external hard drive, that not a back-up. That's the one place you store it, your single point of failure. The second hard drive that is a copy of the first, that's your back-up.
 
In answer to your original question, yes it will affect your data useage. It'll be a bigger problem for the likes of iPhone users where there are very strict data useage fees. The only way forward is making unlimited broadband cheaper. But this is and will happen with more competition.

The slowest will be the mobile phone companies, but then they're about to lose out as messaging services become an integral part of smart phones doing away with sms.
 
TarfHead said:
I'm not, yet, thinking of using it for myself, but industry seems to have decided that it's the new new thing. There was an article in The Register about how apple's announcement spells the begining of the end fo hard drive manufacturers, like Seagate & Western Digital.
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But, If you store your data remotely ( in the cloud) instead of locally, where do you think it is actually stored ? Its still stored on a hard drive, just one that is not in the same building as you.

This may mean that the industry will have to react to the change in consumer and business needs away from larger personal hard drives and towards bigger RAID systems, but the world will still need lots and lots of hard drives.
 
The best thing you can do is find a hard drive which supports Bit Locker... This way, without a unique code, nobody can access the files within the drive...
 
I do think eventually we will see sense in the Google model of no more files and that's how the cloud will work.

But there's still a fear factor of moving to a system (such as a tablet) where it has no OS, no files, no applications and that the browser is in effect your OS, your applications are run online and data is part of the cloud.

You can in effect do that now with google chrome and google documents, google business, etc. The only application you need to open is google chrome and you never have to leave it. It may seem pie in the sky, but it's enough of a threat that Microsoft put Office in the cloud for free, it's enough of a threat that Apple have finally started to take the cloud seriously (though iCloud is welcome, it is not in anyway coming near to what Google are doing).

The idea that you buy a device (laptop, phone, tablet) and there's no need for HD or SSD, no programs or applications just a super fast web browser and all you music, games, productivity, photo apps are accessed through that, fascinates me. I'd buy one.

It's never going to be a reality though until there are much more unlimited broadband packages.
 
huskerdu said:
But, If you store your data remotely ( in the cloud) instead of locally, where do you think it is actually stored ? Its still stored on a hard drive, just one that is not in the same building as you.

This may mean that the industry will have to react to the change in consumer and business needs away from larger personal hard drives and towards bigger RAID systems, but the world will still need lots and lots of hard drives.
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And normally in somewhere protected by automatic protection - gaseous suppression, water mist, as well as VESDA smoke detection, temperature monitoring, AHU system with dampers, humidity and leak detection. Probably also benefit from server replication, discs off-site on a regular basis.
 
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