Best cloud service ?

Best cloud service ?

Why not just buy another hdd? Serious question. I don't understand the need for cloud storage. :/

Seafile

do you mean cloud file storage service?

Just buy a USB stick if you need to carry stuff around, don't fall for the (((cloud))) meme just for replacing your HDD.

Nextcloud

It's back up for keeping things you care about safe. It's also convenient.

Network access. You're pretty thick if you don't understand why people who can't set up their own network storage solution would want a service like google drive or whatever.

You can get an external HDD that's cheaper and easier to use without giving someone else your files too though? And it works when you lose or don't have internet access. It works when you're being throttled, or over capacity as well.

Your own

>Best botnet service?
FIFY

So does cloud storage. Files sync to your device.

I use OneDrive. €7 a month for 1tb + Office 2016 suite and Office 365. I used Google Drive which is okay, but you get Google Docs which is really basic

Why all that bulk, you could carry in your pocket like 100GB of storage for less than 10g of weight.
And unless you need to store high volumes of porn you won't fill all that storage anyway.

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You don't get network access with external hard drives unless you set it up yourself, which puts you outside the demographic that would use cloud storage in the first place. It's also useful for businesses that don't have the resources to have public facing file services in a way that's secure on the level cloud storage services are.

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The best cloud storage service is the one you host yourself

Mega

So just a home server with ftp protocol?

If you don't care about privacy or you encrypt all shit before uploading, just use whatever service that gives the biggest storage.

Just in the middle of setting up my own "cloud" with nextcloud and a raspberry pi 3 and external HDD. Last piece I need is a powered USB hub, and then I can store maymays to my heart's content without Jewgle having the ability to snoop.

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>ftp protocol
>what is a search engine

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How much does a setup like that even cost? Just out of curiosity

my DTSE9 has lasted forever but I think this SanDisk is the new king

It's better then {own,next}Cloud, but beware the shitty encryption.

>house goes up in flames
whoops guess the 30GB of family photos I had is fucked
>"buh it on my flash drive too!"
>flash drive gets dropped in water

inb4 it can happen to google too, i guarantee their servers are mirrored across the world.
i will say you could get super invested and have an offsite server/NAS at a relative's house or something if you want it to be extra safe, but that is a large, large hassle to go through instead of paying $2 a month for 100GB

MEGA

the plastic is offputting and ugly

Once I forgot my USB stick in a pair of jeans, which underwent laundry. After a while I realized it and it was already mid washing cycle.
I pooped bricks thinking all my data was lost, but then I remembered, I'm not a brainlet the device is unpowered, a little water won't kill it.
Needless to say I waited some time, let it dry completely, still worked and all the data was there.

Water won't kill anything that's unpowered.

Yeah, people who suggest a USB flash drive/HDD just don't get it. (It's kind of baffling until you remind yourself Sup Forums is full of literal kids.) For any kind of serious project, personal or professional, you need your data synced across your machines and backed up off-site. Sync with a flash drive instead of over the network is painful, and if you don't have a redundant off-site backup you might as well just delete it now to learn your lesson early. Your single backup drive will fail, get wet, drop on the floor or fry along with your computers when lightning strikes (I've seen it happen). What you need is copies in other places if you want your data to be reasonably safe.

Lmao dude just buy an external hdd with wifi

>file transfer protocol protocol

Self hosted Nextcloud is fucking great. DAVdroid is syncing all my contacts and calendars to my phone and I even have my own mail server configured in the mail app.

I rarely use any Google services these days