Especially if Microsoft or Google will host your apps for 1/5 the cost and you can put the cash into making your product and not having a CCNA or DBA or Exchange admin on staff.įrankly I'm a bit skeptical about this although as I described above you can see the attraction for CEOs and even small business owners. If you're a medium sized company that makes 'X' widget or provides 'X' service there's no law that says you need an IT department. The biggest drive towards 'the cloud' is strictly economic. It's insane and nearly impossible to keep up with security threats, not to mention having to run constant firmware updates on every disk, controller and device in the place. ![]() ![]() With virtualization and the constant onslaught of new server OS's, not to mention everything is virtual anyways this makes the movie 'Inception' look simple. Some are well run, others aren't, and most don't background check their employees. I do IT consulting as a living and have been in about half the data centers in my state. How well does your local bank scrutinize theirs? BS.īut how well do they scrutinize their employees? And how much can you trust them with your valuable data? I just know Mark Levin is selling Carbonite big time and that makes it suspect from the start, if you know what Mark Levin sells. Why do you need a fast internet connection (that's subject to outages and high costs) and some cloud run by some unknown to do that when you can just take your latest $100, 2TB hard drive backup to a relative or neighbor's house on a regular basis)? My son-in-law and daughter did that when they were working on their doctoral theses and wanted to be absolutely sure that there was a recent version of their theses outside of their apartment.Īnd just who is Carbonite, anyway. Yes there are now some big names, like HP and Apple, getting into the Cloud business and are fairly stable, but how well do they scrutinize their employees? Out of your building to some unknown space run by who knows who and subject to going out of business at any time. It gets the backup out of the building containing the computer!īig fuc-ing deal. So with the cost of hard drives so cheap, can someone tell me the advantage of cloud storage anyway? I'd just get some extra internal HD and copy over the drives to those and maybe store them at a relative's house. If that doesn't bother you, then fire away. Just thought I should warn others that their upload speed is crap. So I'm letting it run and will re-evaluate as the end of the subscription approaches (they refuse to give refunds if you're dissatisfied). I made the mistake of trusting them and-heaven help me-bought a 3-year subscription. I recently sent 65 photos, each 6-7MB, to Smugmug. To be clear, my 25/25 FIOS service is very fast. When I wrote to them about the early part of it being slow, I got a non-helpful answer. How much power will my PC burn sitting on all that time? And how much wear on the machine? I have about 420GB to upload (not a heck of a lot for a photographer), and it's shaping up to take the better part of a year to get the initial upload done. The first 200GB isn't exactly speedy-that took a couple of months to upload-and now it uploads about 1GB a day. They mention that once storage passes 200GB they slow it down. Your computer will have to be left on for months to get the initial upload done. For those of us who have lots of photos to protect (probably most on here), brace yourself if you choose them. ![]() ![]() Their FAQ gives a vague idea of it being slower than your upload ability, but they don't really give a clear picture of just how very slow it is. As a service to my fellow dpreview users, I thought I should make sure any prospective Carbonite customers know that Carbonite is painfully slow. In fact, I read posts here before signing up. I've seen many people talk about Carbonite online storage on here, along with other storage solutions.
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