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willofgod
13-09-2005, 09:29 PM
Anyone here use an online backup solution like XDrive? Been thinking of getting one to backup pictures. XDrive seems quite expensive, so would be looking for something cheaper. One place does 250mb for 59p a month, 1gb for 1.99 and so on... Know know anything about them tho!
Spitfire
13-09-2005, 10:38 PM
blank dvd 4.7 gig 59p
Ermmm if this is to 'back-up pictures' it would be cheaper and more secure (?) to burn them to CD or DVD. I wouldn't want to entrust my pics to someone elses server. At 59p for 256mb this equates to £7.08 per year for about the third of the storage capacity of a CD. It doesn't make economic sense Willo.....Unless you're on another spending frenzy of course :P
1gb at £1.99 per month !! Why not buy another 40 gig hard-drive at just over the annual cost ? I cannot see the point at all with such services..... :roll:
willofgod
14-09-2005, 08:13 AM
Good points. But the online solutions are automatic, and because its off-site, it should be safer if the house burns down. That said it is expensive.
r1ncewind
14-09-2005, 09:39 AM
get a memory stick and have it on your keyring.
you can get ones now that are passworded i believe incase you lose it and coz its on your keyring you have it with you should you need it.
or bury your cd/floppy disk in the back garden. then when your house and all its possessions do burn down you will be comforted that your pictures are safe. :D
willofgod
14-09-2005, 10:09 AM
Haha, most humourous! Or very drool as a well known TR member would say.
imported_mrcol
14-09-2005, 12:50 PM
1.99 for a gig aint that expensive TBH
willofgod
14-09-2005, 12:56 PM
Heres the price list. The one thing putting me off is that I've never heard of em, and I think they may be an american company. Not sure I'd want my personal stuff leaving British soil!
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Villan
14-09-2005, 04:41 PM
Heres the price list. The one thing putting me off is that I've never heard of em, and I think they may be an american company. Not sure I'd want my personal stuff leaving British soil!
And your GMail is stored ...???
willofgod
14-09-2005, 06:16 PM
Yeah I thought that about a micro second after I clicked Submit. But Gmail is a big company and very public...
1 gb = £28.06 inc VAT payable annually in advance !! Yes, you can buy a 40gig HD for that or about 150 CD's.....
Seems like a nice little number to me and I still can't see the point in it. As Rince said, why not take CD's off site, leave them at work or at a relatives....???
8O
imported_mrcol
14-09-2005, 07:45 PM
cos sometimes data is extremly valuable?
however, i wouldnt puit pictures in that class, but each to there own
cos sometimes data is extremly valuable?
Yes, a business may decide to store information of a critical nature in an undergound bunker data centre, but I'm just questioning the usefulness of this sort of service for the average person for private (i.e. non commercial use).
Of course, as you have pointed out, would personal photos fall into this catagory ?
imported_mrcol
14-09-2005, 08:45 PM
depends on the data i suppose, until you have suffered a massive crash and lost many hours of work (private or personal) it can be absolutly gut wrenching.
I tend to keep 4-5 copies of what i consider valuable work, ok it might meen shit to someone else, but to me it's thousands of hours worth of time that cannot be redone. I do store these files on a remote drive, but tbh, mines is all (mostly) text and comes to around 30MB all in... so some cheap web hosting covers everything that i need.
why dont you just mail them to your gmail account anyways?
depends on the data i suppose, until you have suffered a massive crash and lost many hours of work (private or personal) it can be absolutly gut wrenching.
I tend to keep 4-5 copies of what i consider valuable work, ok it might meen shit to someone else, but to me it's thousands of hours worth of time that cannot be redone. I do store these files on a remote drive, but tbh, mines is all (mostly) text and comes to around 30MB all in... so some cheap web hosting covers everything that i need.
why dont you just mail them to your gmail account anyways?
Is this the 4-5 copies of Teach Yourself English Vol 1 and How to adapt yourself into a Civilised English Society by Angus McJockstrap, you were telling me about?????
imported_mrcol
15-09-2005, 11:18 AM
no, it's to protect from the dodgey hardware you sell to many people :D
hey at least its cheap :)
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