TiredLegs;372744 Wrote: > I looked into online backup services, but decided against using one (at > least for now). Not only does it take months just to do the initial > backup of hundreds of gigabytes, if you ever need to -retrieve- the > files, it will take months to get them back. The speed of your internet > connection isn't the limiting factor. The backup services intentionally > limit the rate at which they trickle out data to any one user. Most of > the services won't even tell you the data rate you can get copying > files back out. And worse, if one of these services is going of > business, they do not guarantee that they will provide users enough > advance notice to download all their files before the plug gets pulled > on the service.
This is true, but it's a whole heck of a lot safer than relying on myself to make regular off site backups- and at $5/month you can't beat it. Downloading is not capped according to their TOS, and so I assume downloading 150 gb is actually pretty quick on a decent connection. (could do it overnight). Mark- My music library is about 150gb, however I have hundreds worth of data in other stuff, I currently have 2 750gb HDDs in a raid mirror. I do video editing as well as music creation in my home studio. :-) About 40 gb in recorded wavs alone. -- FredFredrickson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FredFredrickson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16584 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56427 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
