Cloud Storage - who are you using?

[jmagid51]

I've been playing with cloud storage and trying to decide for myself what goes to the "cloud" and who's cloud do I use for storage. I have accounts on AT&T Locker, OneDrive, Box and of course Google Drive. Of course I can look at as many as possible as for the most part accounts are currently are no cost.

Two questions;

1. Who are you using?
2. If anyone knows, how does Google Drive see my accounts on OneDrive and Box and does this imply some hierarchy in the world of "Cloud Storage"?

 

[Rukbat]

1) I use Drobbox, Box, Google Drive, SurDoc and a few others. (One pretty much just has a full backup of a website. Google Drive has the ROMS for my phone, my app bckups and password data file. Different cloud servers for different uses.

2) a) Google doesn't have time to look through everyone's data and, most likely, if an employee was found doing that he'd be fired - most likely from a cannon. I've dealt with customer proprietary data - to the point that I actually caught some zipcodes that were for the wrong state [they used the store zipcode for an out-of-state customer) or the phone area code was wrong - in a brick and mortar store. Trust me - if someone had asked me to find the zipcode I fixed 5 minutes ago, it would have been impossible. You do the work, then move on to the next thing, or you're not doing the job properly and get fired for not producing results. So even if Google were, say, scanning your picture file names for something that looked like kiddie porn (they actually do that by computer - no humans involved), anyone remembering the name of one of your files for more than a few seconds would be fired for laziness. b) No, one cloud storage server isn't connected to another cloud storage server - there's no "hierarchy" of cloud servers. (Except through the NSA, which probably knows what you're thinking 5 minutes before you think it).

I make sure that any file I don't want to lose is backed up to my NAS (a drive connected to my home network), and at least 2 cloud servers, each in a part of the continent. If California slips into the ocean at the same time my NAS gets fried, I still have at least one backup. I don't waste time creating data I don't need, so if I have it I back it up. (Say "backing up isn't important" to a young mother whose baby's first step was on a picture on a phone a car just ran over, and wasn't backed up anywhere.)

 

[raymaane]

I use Google Drive and Dropbox. Google Drive is my go to for almost everything. Drop box is where I keep all my random files.

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[UJ95x]

Google Photos. Used to use Dropbox, but my free storage is expiring soon, so I just stuck with something that I won't have to move later.

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[neonworm]

Google Drive is my favorite cloud storage service.

 

[cgardnervt]

Google Music but I also have unlimited streaming with it as well. For docs I just use Google drive but I have next to nothing in there truthfully.

 

[Whyareallthegoodnamestaken]

Google Drive because of the favourable integration with the OS and apps I use.

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[wizzrah]

Here's an outline of what services I use.

1. If I have some slightly important documents, I encrypt them first and upload them to Spideroak or Tresorit. Both offer client side encryption.

2. I use Copy to upload photos and basic documents. It's really easy to backup photos from my phone. I use Google Drive and Box to do the same as well, but I'll use it mostly if I need to collaborate with other people.

3. I use OneDrive to host a lot of my programs, ROMs, and files since I am a developer. I have about 2TB of storage on there.

 

[Golfdriver97]

I use Drive, and Box mainly. I used to use Dropbox, but after seeing how much free space other services offer, I quickly changed.

 

[megatomic]

Google Drive, I got a boatload of it for free when I got my Moto X. It works well on my various computers and phones.

 

[bembol]

Rarely use them but Google Drive is what I use.

 

[alinescoo]

I use Google Drive for pictures and some personal stuff. For my apps (which need only data) I use Amazon S3 service.

 

[NiceSquares Studio]

Google drive and find pretty useful but my space is runnig low. I will subscribe to dropbox soon.