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So Google Drive lowered their prices a few days ago, and is now crazy cheap. http://googleblog.blogspot.in/2014/03/save-more-with-google-drive.html
But… Blocked in China. https://en.greatfire.org/https/drive.google.com
Sure you could use it through VPN but personally I think that’d be too much of a hassle.Found that there’s some alternatives in China.
http://yun.baidu.com from Baidu offer 2 terabyte for free.
http://www.weiyun.com from Tencent offer 10 terabyte for free.
http://yunpan.360.cn offers 36 terabyte(!!!) for free. I don’t know which company is behind it.I haven’t found any catch with them. They’re all complete with desktop and mobile applications. Anyone know about these? Using them? Can they be trusted? I guess the ones from Tencent and Baidu should be quite reliable. The 36 terabyte from 360云盘 really sound too good to be true, and they even increase the storage with 1 gigabyte every day.
What’s the catch!?
Meant to check these out when I saw the thread but never got around to it until last weekend, can share results of few days’ tinkering fwiw. Tencent and Baidu both have tons of other services so signing up for the cloud means you also get a QQ acount etc. I did not figure out how to upgrade the tencent account to the free 10T, though I did see the ad on their site. Performance was OK but since I was limited to the tiny default account I abandoned it pretty quickly.
Baidu also has a small default account but figuring out how to upgrade to free 2T was relatively straightforward. I also was able to use the Baidu account to buy a book from dandan, so it was actually convenient. The initial performance was OK and the folders/layout etc make sense, and the upload speed was about 1.5M/s which is pretty good. The biggest kicker with Baidu is there is a 4G limit for individual items, which means any HD movies are out. upgrading to the next level and removing this restriction is RMB10/month. Today for some reason my upload speed is only 116k/s, but the rest of the online stuff is also slow.
Anyone else take them for a spin?
Both Baidu and Tencent are tier 1 internet service provider. For 360, from my point of view, it should be in tier 2. Baidu is strong in searching and knowledge sharing, while Tencent is strong in IM.
I am a user of Baidu. Till now the experience of his free service seems good enough for me.
Microsoft OneDrive just got cheap. https://blog.onedrive.com/new-onedrive-storage-plans/
I’m looking forward to iCloud’s 1tb storage plan which the price of haven’t been announced yet. http://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-02-at-2-21-34-pm.png?w=1358&h=596
OneDrive’s 200gb plan is $3.99 a month, so is iCloud’s 200gb plan. OneDrive 1tb for $6.99 so iCloud’s 1tb should also be affordable then. Will be in effect “soon”.
Not so likely that these services will be blocked like Google Drive and Dropbox I guess.
I missed this thread when it was created a few months ago…
I would not trust Tencent nor Baidu with my data. iCloud looks great (and is very competitively priced) but I would probably avoid Microsoft OneDrive despite its low price because I’m usually disappointed by MS products, especially online services. Although I’ve been happy with Dropbox for a few years now, the cost of upgrading beyond the 25gb that I have for free is just too high.
I got a NAS for local backups and am considering Amazon Glacier for off-site archival. One of the cool things about a NAS is that you can run your own Dropbox-like service with BT Sync with unlimited storage capacity and bandwidth.
I got a NAS for local backups and am considering Amazon Glacier for off-site archival. One of the cool things about a NAS is that you can run your own Dropbox-like service with BT Sync with unlimited storage capacity and bandwidth.
Amazon Glacier is cool, but with these end user services(Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud soon probably) now being so cheap there’s not much point in using Amazon Glacier I guess. Amazon Glaciers’s prices start at $0.01 per gigabyte per month which for 1tb would be $10.24. I guess Amazon Glacier won’t drop their prices, because they’re targeting a different market it seems.
I’ve always been messing with external hard drives for backups. A NAS would be nice for local redundancy. I think I’m just gonna trust my files are fairly safe at iCloud though, keep doing local backups on the stuff I really must not lose, and store all the stuff that isn’t important on iCloud only.
Would be cool if there’s some software that pull files from iCloud so that a NAS could always keep itself updated as a backup of what’s on iCloud(or other similar services).
Amazon Glacier is cool, but with these end user services(Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud soon probably) now being so cheap there’s not much point in using Amazon Glacier I guess. Amazon Glaciers’s prices start at $0.01 per gigabyte per month which for 1tb would be $10.24. I guess Amazon Glacier won’t drop their prices, because they’re targeting a different market it seems. I’ve always been messing with external hard drives for backups. A NAS would be nice for local redundancy.
That’s a good point. I was thinking for my most important files (work project files, music productions, photo library, etc) have an off-site copy in Glacier which is only used in case of emergency. Say, my apartment catches on fire or there’s some other catastrophic event which causes data loss. It would be my third backup.
Would be cool if there’s some software that pull files from iCloud so that a NAS could always keep itself updated as a backup of what’s on iCloud(or other similar services).
If you use a Synology NAS (which I do) it has this built in for Google Drive and Dropbox already: Synology Sync. These units actually do far more than just data backup, which I’m still exploring.
I think these Cloud Storage is expensive but currently I am using CloudBacko. Till now I did not face any problem with this backup. The interesting thing is that you can backup over 100 TB. Check out this backup.
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