Yesterday on TNT, iyaz akhtar mentioned that an upcoming episode will feature ways to manage mult...

[G+_Dan Phillips]

Yesterday on TNT, iyaz akhtar mentioned that an upcoming episode will feature ways to manage multiple cloud storage services. 

 

I thought that community here could start to prepare by sharing what services we use. I personally use Box.net, Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive and just recently Copy.com which is handing out 5GB to new sign ups. 

 

What do you guys use? Where are the best deals?

[G+_Elizabeth Whitmire]

Just Google Drive and Dropbox right now.

[G+_Ed Lazarus (thegrayarea]

Own cloud looks like a great diy option.

[G+_K R]

dropbox . Pls note of jolidrive.com https://drive.jolicloud.com for collective accessing all of your cloud storage .

[G+_Marlon Thompson]

I have tons of space that I'm not even using 50 gb on box, 57gb on dropbox(50gb thanks to Samsung that I will have to renew next year), I have 2 skydive accounts of 25gb each, and 2 drive accounts. I also have sugarsync and Amazon drive. I think I also need a know how on how to use my cloud storage :)

[G+_John Mink]

Dan Phillips http://copy.com has some referral codes that give you 10GB to start!

 

I'm not big on cloud, but add spideroak to the list!

 

Edward Lazarus I'd love *love*? *love*? to see a DIY cloud Know How! Especially if you could setup multiple servers at different physical locations, but only one logical address!?

[G+_Cole Brodine]

I'm just using Dropbox and Google Drive right now.

[G+_Dan Phillips]

John Mink you are in luck! Episode #1 is about making your own cloud. http://twit.tv/show/know-how/1

[G+_John Mink]

Clearly there have been too many episodes :p

 

Or, I didn't like Iyaz's solution. I'll hafta go back and see!?

[G+_Chris Li]

I used to use dropbox. But then I switched to box.com, because when I log in via iOS, Windows 8, they give me external storage space. So I now have 25GB of storage, which is plenty. 

 

But the pathetic part is that none of them haven speed that is  fast enough in China(I have already solved the speed problem), and none of those chinese cloud storage support WebDAV.

[G+_Jamie Todd]

I using Google drive, Dropbox, skydrive, carbonite, and amazon cloud. I have been curious about jolicloud, and how secure it might be.

[G+_Mark Dymek]

Ive used dropbox for years and still have the free account. i only use it to back up my resume and to keep a copy of certain files with me at all times. ive recently bought office 365 and with that got i think its 25 gb of storage? so i will be using that a lot more. ive used carbonite in the past but with both dropbox and skydrive i find the need for it lessened.

To backup photos i use facebook for things i take on my phone that are low quality. for higher quality pictures that i take with my NEX 5N i use flickr to backup the original file although it does not upload RAW but with the announcement of google+ supporting RAW files i may cancel flickr or use google+ to backup the RAW images and use flickr for higher quality JPEG backup.

[G+_John Mink]

Mark Dymek be careful when "backing up" images on social networks like G+ or Flickr as they compress uploaded photos! I haven't heard anything about them supporting raws, so I'll take a look when i'm not on mobile.

 

Also, they may count larger photos against google drive space...just another thing to potentially watch out for!?

[G+_Mark Dymek]

Google+ just added original file backup via Picasa web albums today. It's been available on android for awhile now you can do it right from Picasa. Although you have to enable it in settings. If Flickr and google+ say things like "original" I'm assuming its the original. Some compression is always used anyway.

[G+_Ed Lazarus (thegrayarea]

http://m.webupd8.org/2011/10/owncloud-2-your-personal-cloud-server.html?m=1

 

Thats what I am talking about John Mink

[G+_Marc Kline]

How funny! I just came to this Community to see if anyone else had tried out ownCloud. I'd love to see it demo'ed and discussed. I may use it with my Raspberry Pi since Dropbox doesn't offer a version that supports ARM Linux. I know that businesses are often concerned about data leakage when it comes to cloud services, too.

[G+_John Mink]

Edward Lazarus seems like a good link, but i'm sad to see them say it's not great on mobile...although I suppose there's an app platform, and a number of apps (mail, calender, so on) will handel that part fine. I feel like getting it setup is the 1st step but finding apps for mobile are a whole 'nother battle.

[G+_P Costello]

Google drive connecting me to multiple PC's and mobile smart devices It helps me keep medical documents always available.

[G+_Harold Crews]

Just Google Drive and Dropbox. Since buying a Chromebook I have more than 100 gb on Google Drive.

[G+_David Hagy]

I use Drive, and Dropbox for free which I try to keep synced and I have been looking into Bitcasa which is 10GB free and unlimited for $99 a year which seems like a good deal.

[G+_Dan Phillips]

logmein.com just launched a cloud drive service called Cuby. 5GB free to start.

[G+_Bruce Jordan]

Dan Phillips , why so many services?  I have a free account at each of the usual places (icloud, dropbox, google drive, probably some i have forgotten), but i only really use icloud and google drive.

 

The market for these services is poorly served, in my opinion.  iCloud is nicely integrated in my preferred devices, but badly implemented from organization perspective (documents are grouped by the app that created them, not their purpose) and provides no collaborative tools/benefits).  Google Drive suffers from Google's general lack of integration (and some weakness in the apps themselves, partly born of the apps being online-only) but is nice for collaborating on a document.

 

But what is the reason for looking at the other providers?  I only use Dropbox because someone else (with whom i wished to share documents) uses it.  It isn't really collaborative (unless i missed something).  Aren't all the rest just shared filing cabinets?

[G+_bryant thompson]

Take a look at GoodSync.com's product, Goodsync,  they have the whole in the cloud thing covered as well as putting ALL of your own stufff in the cloud.   IT's about 80 dollars but I've moved Terabytes of information from place to place with out a problem even with various failures of machines, netowrks, cables, etc and picking up where it left off.

 

I can't say enough good about GoodSync.