QUOTE(yop da great @ Jun 9 2011, 02:04 AM)
but cloud storage is disaster proof. Actually my plan is to backup only long-term data on the cloud.. not the type of data that you would need everyday
When kena hack, that is disaster. When you get a lot of spam mail, you know your data in the cloud get compromise.
Added on June 9, 2011, 10:37 amQUOTE(astria @ Jun 9 2011, 08:29 AM)
on a consumer level, yeah it's pretty limited right now... but on the flip side, u dun ve to worry abt things like maintaining ur data, back ups etc...
cloud has been around us for a long time... web mail is the simplest form... smartphone is combining all the cloud services into 1 place... things like Google Music, Google Maps, Evernote, Google Cloud Printing, all these make full use of cloud computing... and iCloud pushed it to another level...
as broadband gets cheaper u will get to benefit from it...
Actually I m using and experience similiar cloud thing for few yrs already. I would said it is good and sometime frustrate too when you can't access and time consume for upload/dowmload.
For few yrs using, my experience, I still keep my data to pendrive and treat cloud as backup only. I can't rely on it specially when away working. The good is I can share my video, picture etc with my friend and family. They can write comment, leave message and blog on my storage. Another good about my own cloud is I have 6tb storage free.
This post has been edited by ozak: Jun 9 2011, 10:37 AM