Cloud vs HD for storage
Welp, the time has come for me to invest in a backup for my backup..
I’m currently looking at some Western Digital clouds and I’m curious if these are any good/reliable? I like the idea of wireless compared to a hard wire, but I’ve never had a cloud so I’m not sure if they’re buggy or what…
Anyone have a cloud of any kind? Would you recommend it over a wired HD? Any input is appreciated!
bought a wired one
ty men
Im still wary over wireless technology. The intelligent side of me tells me there will be no issue sneding the data wirelessly, but the nostalgic side of me tells me not to trust the new technology.
One day we’ll be wireless.
Today is not (quite…) that day.
Glad I decided to go wired then
ty men
do both?
i didnt need to spend money on one of each just to have an option lol
ty men
The old saying in IT is this:
Your data doesnt exist unless you have it backed up in three separate places. Youve already lost it all, its just a matter of time.
Ive seen this to be true over and over.
So the answer is cloud AND external hard drive, and something else.
This is my 3rd backup
Just needed to know which people preferred
ty men
^ This.
My stuff is on my gigging laptop and replicated on my big desktop rig and on an external HDD. Can’t be arsed with Cloud, plus I don’t trust it either. I tend not to do wireless anything, not even internet if I can help it.
So wireless is not to be trusted
Got it. Glad I went wired.
ty men
Another IT rule is that ‘if you can cable, then cable’.
Wireless is always a compromise solution, never a performance solution. It has so many more points of failure than a wired connectionl.
You should look into cloud soultions for long term storage. I use Amazons Glacier. Its a little difficult to setup and uploading gigs of music takes days if not weeks on slower collections however I have every piece of music Ive ever downloaded safe in the cloud and I Pay like 3 dollars a month for the storage space.
That’s one thing I read when comparing the two… Slow upload speeds. That was basically the reason I went wired. I have a phobia when it comes to cables.. I feel like plugging/unplugging just ruins the products so I try to do it as little as possible.
Will look into this also
ty men
Update, just opened my Amazon bill, its actually 73 cents a month lol