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Thinking more and more about uploading all my hard drives to dropbox. 10To worth, work and research essentially, tons of documentaries and rare films/books gathered over 20 years that I'm glad to have when I need to look into specific topics.
Pros :
- no more lugging 6 WD Passports around between 3 cities
- everything accessible everywhere from every device
- no fear of HDs dying
- haven't really had a steady base in the last 4 years so have already cut down on material things a lot and gone as digital as possible despite loving paper.Cons :
- cost is $600/year, not awful but more than buying HDs + would have to be a long term commitment as I probably won't want to have to download all that stuff back into HDs later on
- might not feel the need to access those files as much when they require downloading
- I do get overwhelmed by the amount of content I store + amount of content already available out there, often feels pointless.Anyone's gone that route yet ?
- Funny, I've spent the weekend moving old backup HDs onto newer backup HDs.webazoot
- I prefer having my own back ups rather than cloud/online services but if you are moving around alot I can see the attraction.webazoot
- Delete everything and start with a clean slatedrgs
- ^ ha, I do often think that HDs crashing could be a blessingspl33nidoru
- Spend $600 on a couple new drives instead. Will last many years. Only use Dropbox for temp storage when you travel. You don’t NEED it allmonospaced
- Been using Dropbox a lot in the lockdown for sharing stuff. Not for work stuff, just books and comics.PhanLo
- ^ yep - if its archival (data that only needs accessed once or twice a year) cloud services can be as low as $1/pm per TB - Dropbox the opposite.kingsteven
- This may work for 90% of your data... https://aws.amazon.c… - Dropbox for the restkingsteven
- Consider that Dropbox only recently became profitable. If they ever lose funding, they could shut down overnight, or with very little notice.nb
- Even 30 days notice, you have a situation where every user tries to download at once and probably the system crashes and no one is around to fix it.nb
- Why Dropbox? Have you checked backblaze b2?ernexbcn
- I was with very unstable internet recently and again and again. Offline solution sounds better for me.SimonFFM
- ALL my files are on Dropbox since a few years now. I LOVE it. No problems at all. 2TB is enough for me yet.Bennn
- From the 2 evils I‘d prefer Google Drive and not Dropbox.NBQ00
- I made the switch from DB to a Google One drive recently. DB synching uses up way too much CPU and HD space.monoboy
- Install Google Backup and sync and you can use it through the finder like a remote drive. Without the file duplication.monoboy
- Then get yourself a decent external HD to do daily backups.monoboy
- I'd consider going with a team drive too, but I didn't want to switch over my mailboxes.monoboy
- Thx guys, I think I'll consolidate all into two 5To Passports for now and take it from there. Almost at 2To on Dropbox for the stuff I do need vs stuff I'd likespl33nidoru
- (Ideal if you have super fast fibre broadband).monoboy
- PS. I have an ancient G5 server that I use for complete storage backup. Belt and braces.monoboy
- My last agency lost everything in an overnight server crash that the tapes then backed up.monoboy
- A decade of work files totally corrupted or gone completely. Place closed three months later.monoboy
- Sorry, to clarify. Backup and sync keeps a local copy of specified folders and files. Google file stream (teams), does not.monoboy
- I used Dropbox Business at my last agency job, always had it completely mirrored locally on a server, which was also backed up to Backblaze.evilpeacock
- You should always have backups and at least a couple, one of those outside premises (cloud works), local for when your computer brokesernexbcn
- remote when your house catches fire, disaster or theft! hope this doesn't happen but those are good reasonsernexbcn
- I'm almost at going full Dropbox, but it feels like giving up. Kind of like one of my arrays that has apparently given up.garbage
- No. Never trust the cloud with all your data. Keep offline backups at all times.grafician
- yeah I suggested 2 backups, one offline the other onlineernexbcn
- Google Drive is about 5x cheaper and the product experience is nearly identical.noRGB