Which online data storage site do you use?

[kellygreen]

I need to stop procrastinating and back my hard drive onto a website... recommendations?

[joenali]

iCloud

[raangoli]

Why not get an external HD for backups?

[80sjunkie]

Dropbox. We love it.

[evans]

We have an external harddrive for back-ups. They are pretty cheap.

[kellygreen]

Sept 10, 2012 9:32:37 GMT -5 raangoli said:

Why not get an external HD for backups?

We have 2 external hard drives already. They're not indestructible...

[hilwithonelary]

I use Carbonite. I've transferred my data to new computers twice and restored data after a crashed hard drive once. No big complaints.

I don't use an external hard drive because it wouldn't do me any good in the event of fire or natural disaster.

[lanyac]

Dropbox as well. My pictures and such are on two hard drives.

[sillygoosegirl]

DropBox, which I like a lot, but I want to get something else (something cheaper) for backing up our photos and such. We have them backed up an external drive, but if our apartment burned down or was broken into, they'd be gone.

[rubytue]

Sept 10, 2012 10:01:24 GMT -5 sillygoosegirl said:

DropBox, which I like a lot, but I want to get something else (something cheaper) for backing up our photos and such. We have them backed up an external drive, but if our apartment burned down or was broken into, they'd be gone.

Or if the hard drive randomly decided to stop working. For no reason. Like ours did with our entire music library and 10 years of pictures.

[sillygoosegirl]

Sept 10, 2012 10:04:14 GMT -5 rubytue said:

Sept 10, 2012 10:01:24 GMT -5 sillygoosegirl said:

DropBox, which I like a lot, but I want to get something else (something cheaper) for backing up our photos and such. We have them backed up an external drive, but if our apartment burned down or was broken into, they'd be gone.

Or if the hard drive randomly decided to stop working. For no reason. Like ours did with our entire music library and 10 years of pictures.

That would only be a problem if the external hard drive and DH hard drive both failed at the same time...

[tripleshot]

We use Mozy. External hard drives can crash and lose data. It's worth the $5/mo to me to know my pictures are safe.

[yourmom]

Carbonite. Has been great so far the couple of times we've needed to actually use it.

[Deleted]

Carbonite--we definitely wanted something off-site in case of fire, break in, malfunction, etc.

[cahabalily]

I use Google Drive. I did have dropbox, but my OS crashed (no clue what happened - H reinstalled and it's been fine since), and I lost everything in my dropbox folder, because DB is installed in the user profile folder of the hard drive, which is part of the OS. So if it hadn't been for my external harddrive, I wouldn't have had any backups for my PhD work.

Now I use Google Drive, and love it.

[cahabalily]

For google, I think the first 5 GB are free with a gmail account, and then you can purchase extra storage for a one=time fee. But I have three different gmail accounts, and therefore 15GB free storage. It will take a while to fill that up.