Cloud Storage, What are you using?
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Yeah, I use all those, including photo bucket. But I want a central storage for audio and video, is Google drive good for that and be sharable to certain people?
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shareable is going to be difficult. Sharing is legally considered piracy. Any account that recognizes media like Google and Amazon will want to lock it down as well. We don't want another Megaupload issue.
To share you really need to use something like Drop Box and preferably wrap the files in a rar. I'm not comfortable giving more advice at this point.
To share you really need to use something like Drop Box and preferably wrap the files in a rar. I'm not comfortable giving more advice at this point.
Chex313
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Play Music for 5000 songs. Dropbox 15GB (Free Upgrades)to share files with family and because it works with so many apps. Drive 10GB since its free for Pics and Movies off my phone. ICloud 5GB for my kid. Wife has her own Dropbox and Drive accounts.
Just got my Nexus 7 last night from GameStop, and I already have Skydrive. Will prob also use Drive and maybe Dropbox. Can I store movies that I buy from the Play store on any cloud drive, or do I have to store it on my Nexus?
I have my own Linux server running in my basement that does 101 different things, such as video surveillance at my house (Motion), file/print/backup (Samba), Web (Apache), etc etc etc. I tacked on "OwnCloud" to those responsibilities and have my 500GB mirrored array available for cloud services. It'll be even nicer once I cough up enough money to get a 6TB array in there.
OwnCloud is basically Dropbox, but on your own personal server. It's the best of both worlds since it's the convenience of the cloud while being on my server and my server only. Of course, it requires me to maintain it - but I really haven't had any issue with it in regard to any of the responsibilities of the server. It just kind of... runs.
OwnCloud is basically Dropbox, but on your own personal server. It's the best of both worlds since it's the convenience of the cloud while being on my server and my server only. Of course, it requires me to maintain it - but I really haven't had any issue with it in regard to any of the responsibilities of the server. It just kind of... runs.
With Google Drive, you get an extra five GBs, its like getting 21GBs when you bought your device.
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I have a NAS for media used my eveyone in my household, and Google Drive and Dropbox for personal files and backup.
Since the Nexus has barely any memory and when I mean barely I mean nothing! I have resorted to using Google Drive, Dropbox and a service I co-created for my uni course to be used by some staff members. Thank heavens for cloud services...stream lining everything!
Though I am still waiting for Google Music to formerly open here so I can upload all my music to the cloud!!
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Though I am still waiting for Google Music to formerly open here so I can upload all my music to the cloud!!
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WD 2TB MyBookLive using the WD 2Go app (own personal cloud)
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Synology 12 TB diskstation (only 6TB usable due to RAID 10) and Dropbox. Synology also handles my surveillance cameras, media server, etc..
I hate that the Nexus syncs so beautifully with Dropbox, when I only have 2 GB there 
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I currently use Skydrive (7GB), Box.com (25GB), Google Drive (for music), and Dropbox (2GB). I wish they'd come out with options where you could do a one-time purchase of space, rather than a monthly or yearly thing.
. I currently use Skydrive (7GB), Box.com (25GB), Google Drive (for music), and Dropbox (2GB). I wish they'd come out with options where you could do a one-time purchase of space, rather than a monthly or yearly thing.
I haven't made much use of cloud services yet (other than testing/playing around), but I'm sure I'll fit them into my "workflow" at some point.
With that said, I have the 5gb available with Google Drive and a total of 50GB (two accounts, 25GB each) with Skydrive: my two accounts were upgraded free to 25GB as I was an existing user at the time.
So, I'll probably use the 5GB Google account for small files like documents etc, my "main" MS account for larger ( but frequently accessed files), and my secondary MS account for general backups that I'd rarely need to access.
That's what I'm thinking, anyway. All that is subject to change once I get some real world use out of them...
With that said, I have the 5gb available with Google Drive and a total of 50GB (two accounts, 25GB each) with Skydrive: my two accounts were upgraded free to 25GB as I was an existing user at the time.
So, I'll probably use the 5GB Google account for small files like documents etc, my "main" MS account for larger ( but frequently accessed files), and my secondary MS account for general backups that I'd rarely need to access.
That's what I'm thinking, anyway. All that is subject to change once I get some real world use out of them...
I also use SkyDrive and have 25 gigs. I just wish that I could edit documents from it. That would make it perfect for me.
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Dropbox (3.38 GB) and SkyDrive (25 GB). I use Dropbox for plain text notes (Epistle) and SkyDrive for the bigger stuff.
I have tried many of the cloud storage services and decided to stay with Dropbox for my main use and a couple of others for backup.
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