Amazon Cloud Drive Anyone?

[Locals Find!]

Is anyone currently using or has used the Amazon Cloud Drive service?? What were your thoughts ? Was it worthwhile did you have issues?

I am thinking about upgrading my free account with them (that I use to store music) as I am tired of lugging around my portable hard drive from office to the house on weekends and days I just wanna work at home.

Any reasonable, on topic feedback will be appreciated.

 

[genericname]

About half the cost of Dropbox's plans, so you get more bang for your buck with Amazon Cloud Drive. The size of the company being what it is, they're not likely to disappear any time soon, along with your data, so that's a bonus.

My only concern is, with Amazon's product-recommendation based business model, what else are they doing with your data once you've stored it?

Also, I wouldn't toss the physical drive. Cloud storage is great for syncing between systems when a more elegant solution isn't available, or for easy access from remote locations, but I would never rely on it for full backups. Always keep a physical copy on hand.

If you absolutely need cloud based backups though, I'd check out Carbonite if I were you. Just a little more than Amazon's 50GB plan, but with Carbonite, you get unlimited storage.

 

[oldgoatroper]

Is anyone currently using or has used the Amazon Cloud Drive service?? What were your thoughts ? Was it worthwhile did you have issues?

I am thinking about upgrading my free account with them (that I use to store music) as I am tired of lugging around my portable hard drive from office to the house on weekends and days I just wanna work at home.

Any reasonable, on topic feedback will be appreciated.

HTFU.

Seriously. With today's portable drives, how much hassle is it really to carry around hundreds, if not thousands of gigabytes of data?

A cloud drive can have good downstream performance but uploading speeds are nearly always throttled to a fraction of your download speeds by your ISP.

And then there is the ever-present risk of not being able to access your data...

Data host down/out of business/closes account -- whatever. ISP down/over data limit... whatever...

Carrying your data physically with you eliminates so many potential downsides.

 

[Locals Find!]

Thanks for the feedback. I am not planning on dumping the physical drives and back ups. Just wanna make accessing the files easier from different computers.