[Hidden-tech] Music-video storage in the cloud

[Ron Miller]

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I think he was just looking for storage, not the ability to play, so that's not really an issue. Also, I know for a fact, he's using OSX, so that's not an issue.


There are plenty of options out there for online storage at a good price, many of which are on the Amazon platform, but the question for me with storing my digital life is do I want to be on a small player. What Mozy offers is the great price for home users with the backing of a large storage vendor. 

I'm not sure if you can access your files via the web site or not as I've not tested it yet, but it does give you a great storage option for a low cost and I think that's what Jeff was asking about.

Ron



On May 18, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Roger Williams wrote:

>>>>>> Ron Miller <ronsmiller at comcast.net> writes:
> 
>> I've just been looking into this and I think Mozy is a good choice.
> 
> Hmmm... as far as I can tell, Mozy is strictly an online backup service, and
> the whole backup/restore process is handled by a proprietary client that runs
> on individual PCs.  (The per-machine client part is almost inevitable, but
> Mozy doesn't support anything but Windows and OSX.)  Of course its big win for
> personal users is unlimited storage (for a single client) for a fixed price.
> 
> Unfortunately, there's no way to stream the backed up audio or video files
> with your media player or Apple TV; no way to autonomously backup your local
> NAS; in fact, no support for accessing your files in any way except through
> their software on your PC.
> 
> An attractive option is ZumoDrive.  Like many other services, it uses the
> Amazon S3 cloud.  However, it appears to be unique as compared to other file
> sync and storage services in that content appears local to the filesystem and
> can be streamed from the cloud on demand.  In addition to Windows and OSX
> devices, they support Linux, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, WebOS, and various
> network storage boxes.  Some additional interesting features include:
> 
>    "The ZumoDrive service also offers intelligent 'predictive caching' which
>    allows copies of frequently used files to be stored locally so users can
>    access these files when they don't have internet access.  ZumoDrive allows
>    users to selectively synchronize individual files, folders, or the entire
>    virtual drive. Users can also link folders in place on their computers to
>    their ZumoDrive, and these folders and all content will stay in sync
>    across all devices.  The ZumoDrive service allows storage-restricted
>    devices (e.g. netbooks, iPhones, WebOS and Android handsets), to have full
>    access to the cloud, thereby making these devices appear to be as large as
>    there is data available in the cloud."
> 
> Alas, no "all you can eat" pricing option.
> 
> -- 
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