Any good cloud hosting services?
Trollheart
Posts: 5,093 Forum Member
✭
Supposedly, the thing to do these days is back up all your files to a Cloud service, however I have literally terabytes of files and most services offer a few crappy gigs, and I'm not talking about free services either. Does anyone know of or use any service that gives proper storage? Who talks gigabytes these days anyway?
I've tried two Chinese providers who supposedly offer 10/36 TB free, but as expected it's too good to be true and nothing works. Also using Hubic as per another thread but finding I have problems with them.
Any advice would be great. Other than that I'll just have to keep buying backup external hard drives as my collection continues to grow.
Thanks
TH
I've tried two Chinese providers who supposedly offer 10/36 TB free, but as expected it's too good to be true and nothing works. Also using Hubic as per another thread but finding I have problems with them.
Any advice would be great. Other than that I'll just have to keep buying backup external hard drives as my collection continues to grow.
Thanks
TH
0
Comments
And most people still work in GB... it's enough for most. Are you a video editor or something?
Quick example: TV series and movies: 1.02 TB
Other videos: 2.29 TB
Personal pictures and videos : 2.3 TB
Music: 1.08 TB
Comics/Graphic Novels 360 GB
Total (approx): 6.8 TB
So you can see how gigs do not figure in my plan at all...
But seriously, why do you even bother with storing music now anyway, when you can find the music you need on youtube mostly, and other sites too. Too many to even list them.
Maybe what you should just do is make a list of all your songs that will take a long time, or better still, find a program that can extract all the song names and singers/bands, then you have all the names and so on, then you wouldnt need to bother with finding or buying more storage?? Thus that text file with names would be like tiny as hell lol, cos it would only be a text file.
But why on earth would you need it, if your not in the music business a DJ or what ever else in the music business. Maybe you have a digital hoard addiction??
That is my 2 cents anyway.
They offer 'Unlimited backup storage for $5 a month.
May not be what you want, but, may be worth a look..:)
The only thing there that I'd seriously bother about backing up is the personal pics and vids. Everything else can be redownloaded, whether it's been acquired above or under the counter.
Anyway, yes, Backblaze. I'd forgotten about them. There are a couple of others. I think even Amazon does cloud backup services for individuals on a per TV basis. Slow access, though, but if all you're doing is uploading and walking away then that shouldn't be a problem.
Generally, I would back up important things online and if you have lots of stuff locally, I would find another means of doing that.
The cheapest online storage is probably Amazon Glacier.
for vidoes my own ones with out any music I use youtube if a clip has music in then dailymotion or facebook seem ok but might be limited to 30 min uploads.
for music this is OK
https://yunpan.360.cn/
but when uploading TV Shows or films its like just 10kb to 50kb its to slow and uploads don't upload before having to go bed and turning the pc off.
Its great now having 18 meg uploads with infinity 2.
Thanks. I'll look into that. You're seriously underestimating the amount of time and trouble it has taken me to download much of my music, and the services used. Remember Allofmp3.com? Audiogalaxy? Many of these sites no longer exist, and much of the access to torrent sites has been cut off by Irish ISPs, so most of those avenues for redownloading would not be available to me. To say nothing of hte time and hassle involved in doing that. Anyway, I like my music collection and don't want to lose or have to reassemble it.
Exactly, doesnt surprise me if they are not illegal downloads at all.
@Trollheart - It has never happened where i do a search for a specific song and it is not available on youtube, or any other site that has music that is free to listen too. i think your living in the past, and you cant seem to understand, you do not need to keep music anymore. only reason you would is for your phones, but even then you dont need it on phones as data is becoming more and more cheaper and will soon become unlimited on mobile networks too, so you can just then use youtube, other music stream sites on mobiles/tablets, i just don't understand why you are trying to defend your illegal collection of music, yes who knows if you paid for some of them, but some of those sites you listed was obviously illegal sites you could get free mp3s off, i used to collect mp3s too, now i do not need to and the music i did have i deleted, because streaming sites are now there instead.
Why then pay for a storage solution for illegal music, when you do not need too, that is my point. it is pointless, and you then would have all that space back, if you just deleted them and made that list, but hey what ever, your choice. keep hoarding the illegal music, you cant take it with you when you die.
The state of my music collection is not a subject for discussion; you don't know how much of it has been bought with hard-earned cash and what has been downloaded, or how, so please don't make unfounded accusations. In any case, to expand on the Youtube thing, here's more:
If you've never found a track you couldn't get a YouTube for then we obviously listen to far different types of music. I constantly find it hard to get videos for songs I wish to feature in my blogs. Apart from that, I despise the banner ads and the ads at the beginning on YouTubes. I like to listen to music sometimes with a visualisation, sometimes downstairs on my ipod, sometimes on my phone. I often don't want to see live concerts, cover versions or music videos made by people. In any case, I fail to see why I can't collect music if I want to. You don't want to, fine. I am of an older generation but that doesn't mean I live in the past, though if I do then that's my choice. I have worked hard to amass the music collection I have now and don't want to lose it in a hard drive crash or similar, so really, why this has suddenly turned into a debate about how legal my music is escapes me. Basically, that's my business and I'll thank you to respect that.
But YouTube will never for me be an alternative to listening to an album all the way through without having to click this away, that away, or do video by video, or have the internet suddenly hang, or be interrupted by ads. And yes, before you ask, I do subscribe to Spotify premium too, but even they don't have all the music I need.
I think I've worked out a way to upload folders to Hubic anyhow, so this may be all I need. Thanks to those who offered suggestions.
TH
Many like to make assumptions and don't take into account the poster's context.