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misling · 10-15-2011, 01:40 PM

I keep a couple hard drive backups. My amazon stuff is on amazon's cloud by default, but I download all of it anyway.

I have a few problems with clouds. First is bandwidth. I have a 5gb cap on data transfers. And I have about 80gb of music - even if I used up my whole month's allotment of data transfer every month on it, it would take forever to get all my music loaded into any cloud. Second, I want my stuff where I can always get it, no worries if the company goes out of business or their servers go down. Third, I don't like the privacy implications. Not that I care who sees what music I have - but for other stuff.

10-15-2011, 01:40 PM	#33
misling Zealot Posts: 106 Karma: 510000 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Kindle	I keep a couple hard drive backups. My amazon stuff is on amazon's cloud by default, but I download all of it anyway. I have a few problems with clouds. First is bandwidth. I have a 5gb cap on data transfers. And I have about 80gb of music - even if I used up my whole month's allotment of data transfer every month on it, it would take forever to get all my music loaded into any cloud. Second, I want my stuff where I can always get it, no worries if the company goes out of business or their servers go down. Third, I don't like the privacy implications. Not that I care who sees what music I have - but for other stuff.