Buy a 250gig Buffalo TurboUSB 2.0 external drive for $80 and it works out to less than $2.25 a month assuming a 3 year life span -- the duration of the manufacturer's warranty.
Then you'll have all your data with you all time time so you'll never have to be online to access it, and you'll never have to worry about some 'service company' losing your data or allowing it to get into the wrong hands, and you'll never be subject to the company going out of business.
In other words, take responsibility for storing your own data -- on your own hardware -- instead of trying to find excuses to pay someone else to store it in the cloud for you.
There is cost in overhead, too. Beyond getting the drive:
- Connecting it to the internet so you can access it from anywhere
- Setting up iTunes to stream properly
- Setting up a mechanism that caches recent/popular files locally
- Develop an iPhone app to access the drive
Ha, I find this case to be an exception - to me, browser-based photo editor sitting in "the cloud" sounds more absurd than keeping your Torrent server there.
I run my torrents off Slicehost. It's been awesome. This is what "cloud" is supposed to be doing.
so you pay $20/month so you can run bittorent on a dedicated computer without hogging down your own network + machine? That doesn't sound too bad. Is it a pain to transfer the files back to local computer though?
