Microsoft is fast becoming platform agnostic; even if you decide to stop using windows phones, you can still integrate your stuff easily.Wd40 wrote:Thanks both. I have decided to align myself with the Microsoft camp and in future too, whatever tablets or phones I am going to buy, its going to be windows which is why I am inclined towards one drive, instead of google drive. ITunes is not even applicable, for me. Nice to know that there are ways to increase the storage space to unlimited for one drive.
That's practically all cloud storage lockers*, actually. You usually install an app on your computer which will sync a specified folder.curiousgeorge wrote:And because it *can* synchronise a local copy (i.e. actually take up storage space on hard drive) if you don't have internet access, no problem. Changes sync when you do re-connect. And if you want to switch to another cloud provider, you don't need to download everything, as you still have it all there on your local hard drive.
Actually there is now iCloud drive that lets you do this. Their allotted storage is small though.nakatago wrote:That's practically all cloud storage lockers*, actually. You usually install an app on your computer which will sync a specified folder.curiousgeorge wrote:And because it *can* synchronise a local copy (i.e. actually take up storage space on hard drive) if you don't have internet access, no problem. Changes sync when you do re-connect. And if you want to switch to another cloud provider, you don't need to download everything, as you still have it all there on your local hard drive.
* What I've used so far: Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive (sorta), Ubuntu1 (now defunct). iCloud also works on the same principle except that Apple doesn't want you thinking about where the actual directory is.
All free things are like that. Ubuntu told me to move my stuff when they were closing UbuntuOne because free offerings are heaps better. Not sure though if all free services would notify you right away and give you time to move your stuff. It could happen to free Dropbox, free OneDrive...any free service really (and paid ones as well, really, if the company is bleeding money).zzm9980 wrote:If your'e relying on a free tier I wouldn't trust Google. You'll get an announcement one day they're cutting/eliminating it and be forced to move.
So the backup/safer storage.Wd40 wrote:Mainly for pictures/videos. External hard drive's don't last beyond 3 years, I read somewhere. Also we keep moving sometimes country to country, these drives can get lost. Imagine you want to see your childs pictures 20 years from now, cloud seems to be the best option other than the good old hard copy photo albums we used to have.
Now with smart phones and tablets we are generating pictures and videos in such a large amount and because of the higher megapixel, the size of each photo is also so much higher.
The Fappening. (yeah, someone complained about the term 4chan coined...it's like complaining the Ku Klux Klan is racist).x9200 wrote:I recall headlines on some celebrity photos that leaked out...
Those at the top of the list are pretty reputable (heehee) companies so you're mostly covered as long as your photos/videos are mundane enough that you won't be a specific target (i.e. no one is specifically looking for your files in the cloud and even if someone did, you don't mind them knowing that you had your picture taken at location A). But if you're really concerned, you'd encrypt those media first before synching to the cloud...or take it one step further, to a paid service that specifically offers super private cloud storage.Wd40 wrote:Yeah security is a concern, but if we are operating our bank accounts online, then storing photos online should be lesser of a concern.
Having mentioned the celebrity photos myself, with the second thought, I would be actually more concerned about the NSA and alike things. Such photos are or could be a gold mine for personal profiling of you and the shooting subjects. If you encrypt them probably more attention will be attracted. Not that I have anything worth this attention, but have this habit of controlling the information on myself/family I give away.Wd40 wrote:Yeah security is a concern, but if we are operating our bank accounts online, then storing photos online should be lesser of a concern.
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