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Kahroo

Kahroo

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Which do you use and why? I am looking for some storage to host my nandroid backups on. So I have it on my PC/Cloud Storage. I am thinking of going with Google Drive and pay $4.99/month for it's 100GBs It's much cheaper then DropBox's $9.99/month for 100GBs
 
Kahroo said:
Which do you use and why? I am looking for some storage to host my nandroid backups on. So I have it on my PC/Cloud Storage. I am thinking of going with Google Drive and pay $4.99/month for it's 100GBs It's much cheaper then DropBox's $9.99/month for 100GBs
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I'm using Copy for my Nandroid backups. They start you with 15GB free. But I also use Drive and Dropbox and I have no complaints right now. But for the large file size of nandroids, I had to go with Copy for that.
 
PrinceCorwin said:
I'm using Copy for my Nandroid backups. They start you with 50GB free. But I also use Drive and Dropbox and I have no complaints right now. But for the large file size of nandroids, I had to go with Copy for that.
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Never heard of Copy. How good is it compared to DropBox/GDrive? Also I see no where that you start with 50GBs, only 15GBs
 
My only issue with Cloud storage is uploading files is slow, it is OK when you have small files, but if you want to upload larges files it takes too much time, so I prefer external HD. I keep the cloud for the small stuff and pictures that I use to post in forums.
 
DonB said:
My only issue with Cloud storage is uploading files is slow, it is OK when you have small files, but if you want to upload larges files it takes too much time, so I prefer external HD. I keep the cloud for the small stuff and pictures that I use to post in forums.
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Eh I'm not really bothered by it. I mean if I have time I'll upload my nandroid, which I know will take forever. But it seems like Google Drive will be for my nandroids and my documents. (Since I like to write word doc in Drive) And I'll just use DropBox for something else...what I have no idea atm xD
 
Sounds financially inefficient to me, $60-120 a year for 100GB? I'd rather invest a lil more for personal NAS at a much better size requirement.
 
XplosiV said:
Sounds financially inefficient to me, $60-120 a year for 100GB? I'd rather invest a lil more for personal NAS at a much better size requirement.
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If I'm not mistaken a NAS is a hard drive that is linked to your internet and you can access it anywhere? Well I have a problem with that I don't and can not have a permanent internet connection at my house. (Currently living in my grandfather's and he doesn't want internet) So if I want to use my laptop I have to tether from my phone. So GDrive for $4.99/month is not that bad.
 
PrinceCorwin said:
I don't know why the play store still shows 15G, but when you sign up, you get 50G. Try it out and see. I had the same question before I signed up, but when I did, I got 50
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Oh you were talking about the app? I went to Copy's website, and it said 15GBs free
 
Kahroo said:
If I'm not mistaken a NAS is a hard drive that is linked to your internet and you can access it anywhere? Well I have a problem with that I don't and can not have a permanent internet connection at my house. (Currently living in my grandfather's and he doesn't want internet) So if I want to use my laptop I have to tether from my phone. So GDrive for $4.99/month is not that bad.
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Essentially yes, unless you have a good friend or someone who will let you keep it at their place, as long as you have strong credentials on the accounts and a ddns account you'll still be able to access it safely enough where ever it physically resides.
 
XplosiV said:
Essentially yes, unless you have a good friend or someone who will let you keep it at their place, as long as you have strong credentials on the accounts and a ddns account you'll still be able to access it safely enough where ever it physically resides.
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Eh IDK. I kinda like the Drive more. But I will think about it. Any good ones?
 
Depends entirely on what you need it to do.

You can plug an external drive into some routers and achieve the same functionality as a NAS, if you just need remote storage. If you want a more sophisticated solution that has software for pretty much any type of server you're ever going to beed to use, then the limits are much more vast.

My own NAS is a Synology box with 4x 1.5TB drives in a RAID 5, needless to say it set me back a bit, but it's taken 4 years to practically fill it. My next one will be a much higher capacity.
 
XplosiV said:
Depends entirely on what you need it to do.

You can plug an external drive into some routers and achieve the same functionality as a NAS, if you just need remote storage. If you want a more sophisticated solution that has software for pretty much any type of server you're ever going to beed to use, then the limits are much more vast.

My own NAS is a Synology box with 4x 1.5TB drives in a RAID 5, needless to say it set me back a bit, but it's taken 4 years to practically fill it. My next one will be a much higher capacity.
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I was thinking about a external that plugs into a router.
 
All depends on the real capacity you want chap.

Going on $60-120 a year for a cloud service. You can get a Samsung 1TB for about $90ish
 
Went all through the comments and have seen some good recommendations by the other community members. As you have mentioned in your questions that you have two options in mind already, then I think I’d first stick with the ones that you have cited earlier. Among Dropbox and Google Drive I prefer Google Drive for Android users because it is comparatively lighter than Dropbox. But for the purpose of storing large amount of data – I prefer Dropbox in all the cases. Yes, you are absolutely right that the uploading speed is a bit slow if you intend to upload files that are bigger in size but it is a normal issue which will find with each and every vendor.

Regarding Copy, it’s a new one so I won’t say to go with it because you can’t count solely on a start-up. It is good, no doubt but on the other hand it won’t be appropriate if we rate it as alternative of Dropbox. So my opinion is to go with Dropbox…!
 
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