Cloud Storage - Pie in the Sky???

Gorie

Hello

I have a few hard drives at home, however I want some cloud storage (around 1TB for pictures, music and documents etc...).

KnowHow (Currys/PC World) offer the cheapest service (£90 for 2TB for 5 Years), however I recognise they are renown for their fallacious customer service... Enough said...

OneDrive (Microsoft) offer 1TB for £59.99 annually including the new MS Office 365.

CrashPlan Offer unlimited storage for around £39 annually ($59.99 USD).

Has anyone any experience with these companies?

Should I take a chance with 'You KnowHow Who'?

Should I go with CrashPlan and just stay there for a year and shop again when its cheaper?

Or should I upgrade Office at the same time and go with Microsoft?

Thanks,

David

PS:
Google Drive £75/year for 1TB
DropBox £79/year for 1TB
Apple iCloud £180/year for 1TB:cool:

dipsomaniac

i would go with google or microsoft (good price with 365 included) as i would be surprised if pcworld is still in business in 5 years

Roland_Sausage

It depends what you would like to do with it. Are you looking to backup to the cloud storage, or simply offload some of the stuff from your hard drives to it in order to free up space?

For example Dropbox will only allow the former. It will mirror what you have already, and if you then delete the original the Dropbox copy gets removed too.

Crashplan is intended to be a backup as well, however they do have an option to keep the data when the original is deleted. I have used them in the past and it is a good service.

Amazon Could Drive seems quite good, but will be expensive for the size that you are needing.

RumRat

OneDrive won't be going anywhere, it's a central plank in Microsofts future plans.
I know people who use Crashplan and rate it highly. not sure about it's future though.
Google would probably be another safe bet.
I'm guessing that PCWorld/Currys/CarphoneWarehouse rent their storage from a third party. Unless you know who that is, its longevity would have a question mark over it.
Dropbox is excellent, but pricey.

dipsomaniac

apple are taking the p at 180

Gillor

Take a look at Copy.com. - $99 (£64) p.a. for 1Tb.

Part of the Barracuda Networks security outfit so although nothing is certain in life (apart from death and taxes) there's a fair chance of them being around for some time.

securityguy

Crashplan are good for cross-platform backup because their client isn't the best on Windows or the best on OSX, but is at least OK on both of them (and works tolerably on Linux and Solaris, which may or may not matter to you). But they are only a backup service: you'd struggle to use it for anything else.

googler

128Gb micro SD cards come in at around £65, and are likely to get cheaper and/or have bigger capacity. A holder for 8 of them is £6.99 and fits a credit card slot in your wallet or purse.

Depending on how much data you have, merely copying to micro SD and carrying your data with you seems a cheaper and easier solution.

jaydeeuk1

One word of warning with dropbox - I have a lot of files, SVN backups, photos, websites, db backups etc, probably getting on over half a million. Dropbox performance degrades massively once you get over 300k files as I've discovered this week, and can take several days to sink a few kb of files. I'm having to zip sites/svn structures up prior to upload instead of just replicating. Will take a few weeks to sort out. Only using 200gb of a 2tb plan aswell.

onlyroz

Whatever you do, don't go with iCloud - it is utterly rubbish. In the time it took me to download, install and setup OneDrive, a file I'd put into my iCloud drive still hadn't managed to sync between my MacBook and iMac.

windup

Gorie wrote: »

Hello

I have a few hard drives at home

take one somewhere else.