{"id":6479,"date":"2014-09-22T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T07:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6479"},"modified":"2014-09-20T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T16:33:10","slug":"cloud-storage-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6479","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Storage Overload"},"content":{"rendered":"

This cloud storage stuff is becoming ridiculous. I understand the value. I use cloud storage. With so many players are into the act now, I actually have more cloud storage options than I know what to do with.
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\nThe ridiculousness of the situation dawned on me when I discovered that Amazon gives all of its customers cloud storage.<\/p>\n

Oh, joy. I have even more<\/em> cloud storage.<\/p>\n

So what is cloud storage? It’s basically Internet storage, like a network hard drive, but accessible from any computer connected to the Internet (providing that you know the password). Mobile devices can also access cloud storage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I racked up the total. Presently I have access to online storage from five services: Apple’s iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and (what I learned last month) Amazon Cloud Drive.<\/p>\n

While I don’t use all those services, the total amount of free storage available to me is 93.5GB. That’s more storage than in the first 20 or so computers I owned — combined.<\/p>\n

Table 1 lists the storage options I have access to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Table 1. Cloud Storage<\/caption>\n
Service<\/th>\nFancy Icon<\/th>\nStorage<\/th>\nComments<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Dropbox<\/td>\n\"dropbox_icon_small\"<\/td>\n53.5GB<\/td>\nMy favorite service. Dropbox keeps increasing its free online storage. I received a big chunk free with a Samsung phone or tablet I purchased.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apple’s iCloud<\/td>\n\"icloud\"<\/td>\n5.0GB<\/td>\nI never use this service, although it’s one of the first ones I had access to. Thank you, old iPhone.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google Drive<\/td>\n\"google_drive\"<\/td>\n15.0GB<\/td>\nThis service is used a lot, along with Google Docs, but only for one of my publishers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Microsoft OneDrive<\/td>\n\"onedrive\"<\/td>\n15.0GB<\/td>\nOneDrive (n\u00e9e SkyDrive) works well with Microsoft Office 2013. I actually have files stored there. Now if only the computer could keep track of them.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amazon Cloud Drive<\/td>\n\"amazon_cloud_drive\"<\/td>\n5.0GB<\/td>\nThis one is the latest, which I just discovered thanks to the new Fire phone.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

It’s not that I mind all the cloud storage. I just don’t know what to do with it all.<\/p>\n

We you get a Cloud storage account, you receive X<\/em> gigabytes of storage space on the Internet. It’s accessed through a web page, which is handy but cumbersome. More conveniently, your cloud storage can be echoed on your computer’s file system, providing you install the proper synchronization programs. After that, aall the folders and files are duplicated locally.<\/p>\n

The advantage of cloud storage is that you can work on a file on any device, or on the Internet. That file is updated on every computer or mobile device that has access to the cloud storage service.<\/p>\n

For my personal files, I store items on Dropbox that I want to keep coordinated between my laptop and desktop systems. Further, thanks to the Dropbox app, I can access files — such as my grocery shopping list — from my phone.<\/p>\n

The work I’ve done with Lynda is coordinated through my Google Drive — and by using Google Docs as the office productivity software.<\/p>\n

I have a few files I’ve used on Microsoft’s OneDrive, although they’re mostly for my Word For Dummies<\/em> book. Still, some documents I use across several computers are shared via OneDrive.<\/p>\n

As far as Apple’s iCloud and Amazon’s Cloud Drive, I don’t use them at all. I know I have some photos synchronized with both accounts (no nude selfies, of course), but because they exist locally (on my PC’s hard drive) as well, I don’t bother visiting their copies on cloud storage.<\/p>\n

Ideally you could keep all your stuff on the cloud. Practically, that would require only one source for cloud storage, which means you can ignore the rest. That’s what I try to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All told, I have 93.5 gigabytes of cloud storage. That’s crazy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,15],"class_list":["post-6479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-android","tag-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6479"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6593,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions\/6593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}