Hey guys. I'm sure some of you know about this but I wanted to put it out there. I just downloaded and signed up for Bitcasa. It's provides unlimited storage and is really cool. I just uploaded three weddings to it for my clients to download from. All for a total of 45GB. Check it out. http://l.bitcasa.com/oXAsr33b
I don't know why people keep turning to online storage. Who knows whether any company is going to be around tomorrow or if they're being responsible with your data, nevermind the ridiculously long time it takes to upload anything unless you have a crazy connection...
The best way is to do it yourself and keep backups regularly and stored off-site.
It's $10 a month for unlimited storage. Don't know how they can do it that cheap but hey, I'm not complaining. Also, you should never count on one way to backup your data. I always keep my RAW files on external hard drives, burn those RAW to JPEGS and then burn them to disc. It's just another medium. Think about Facebook too. Free advertising and unlimited photo storage. How do they do it? Advertising. I'm sure Bitcasa will gain some powerful advertising dollars to keep this going. Wait and see I guess.
MarcAnthony wrote:
It's $10 a month for unlimited storage. Don't know how they can do it that cheap but hey, I'm not complaining. Also, you should never count on one way to backup your data. I always keep my RAW files on external hard drives, burn those RAW to JPEGS and then burn them to disc. It's just another medium. Think about Facebook too. Free advertising and unlimited photo storage. How do they do it? Advertising. I'm sure Bitcasa will gain some powerful advertising dollars to keep this going. Wait and see I guess.
Those companies all rely on people now using the service to the full extent. Same way banks work.
If everyone uploaded all their data (or as much data as we as photographers have) the company would tank because it would not be profitable to provide that kind of storage for people.
Same thing if we all went to the bank and demanded all of our money in savings. They would look around and shit a brick and then everything would go to hell.
- bank can make moneys with your money
- bank can give your moneys to somebody else who demands it now, so can keep only part of them
- bank is insured by government and have steady ways of income (way too steady)
those services have none of it, but some startup VC moneys. they cannot pull any ad moneys because you are obviously not going to share your data with whole world to make them good ad target either. Facebook can.
uploading data to them (even if you do not care about that somebody else will have access to them or encrypt the hell out of it) is imo only waste of time even if it would be free.
TTLKurtis wrote:
I don't know why people keep turning to online storage. Who knows whether any company is going to be around tomorrow or if they're being responsible with your data, nevermind the ridiculously long time it takes to upload anything unless you have a crazy connection...
The best way is to do it yourself and keep backups regularly and stored off-site.
Absolute truth. DVD archives in a safe deposit box for me.
TTLKurtis wrote:
I don't know why people keep turning to online storage. Who knows whether any company is going to be around tomorrow or if they're being responsible with your data, nevermind the ridiculously long time it takes to upload anything unless you have a crazy connection...
The best way is to do it yourself and keep backups regularly and stored off-site.
Online storage is not a good idea for a primary backup. However, it makes for a very cheap second backup (or third copy) of your data.
I pay $50 a year for unlimited online backup. That is NOTHING.
I cannot even imagine the time and hassle it would take to burn all of that data to DVD (or even Blu-Ray), then get in my car and drive it somewhere every single time I wanted to "backup" my data. What a PITA that would be.
As for upload, I have a 4mb/s upload stream and everything backs up in the background when my computer is idle. It doesn't really "take" any time because the process is automated. And if you have a decent connection, backup is actually pretty quick.
