If your external drives never seem big enough, then the Cloud is definitely not for you. Most services provide less than 100GB - and that's for a hefty monthly fee. Most of the free options are in the single digits GB-wise. Not only do cloud services provide a relatively small amount of storage space in relation to hard drives, they're slow. You're limited by the speed of your internet connection, which is no match for SATA or USB/FireWire. A 100GB iTunes library would take about 3 days at best to upload to the cloud over a 4mbps upstream internet connection. Then there's the question of whether you want to trust a company with your music and photos - a company that could potentially go defunct, and take your data with them.
Just my .02. Chance On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:56 AM, John Carmonne <carmo...@aol.com> wrote: > I'm wondering if someone has subscribed to one of the "Cloud Services" for > their PPC Mac's and in what capacity. What I'd like to know is if these > services can replace having multiple HDD's to transfer files such as iTunes > and iPhoto libraries, or would it be too slow. Also could I store a CCC's on > the Cloud? My G5 PM has 5 HDD's and I'd like to retire a lot of external > drives, they get a little hard to keep track of and never seem to be big > enough.:-) > > > John Carmonne > Yorba Linda CA > 92886 USA > Sent from my MBP > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
