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    Amazon cloud drive, is it good?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by kenny1999, Dec 1, 2016.

  1. kenny1999

    kenny1999 Notebook Evangelist

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    I am planning to throw away all the old CD, DVD disc and eliminating hard drives while making the backup of the files to Amazon cloud drive.

    I am having 100MB broadband connection which is very fast so I don't even want to use physical drives

    Amazon's 59.99 for one-year unlimited storage looks like a good deal to me, compared to the expensive Google Drive.

    Anyone used it before? Any advice? What is the max upload/download speed?

    I even want to use it to replace my physical hard drives. When I need any files, I download from it.
     
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    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    Do you have a 100 mbps symmetrical broadband connection though? I assume that is your download speed but you might be severely limited by your upload speed if your connection is not a symmetrical one and you have enough to upload (especially if it's on regular basis as backups should be)
     
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    symmetrical broadband connection???

    How do I know if I have it or not
     
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    Take a speedtest - symmetrical means download and upload speeds are the same. I doubt you have this sort of connection since most connections are not symmetrical.
     
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    Is it symmetrical?

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    I'm looking for free cloud with large capacity :(
     
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    It is - that's good.
     
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    However... cloud storage's speed depends on the slowest portion on the network.
    We have symmetrical GigE at work, and I still can't upload any faster than 7MB/s to AWS.
     
    Krowe, Dec 5, 2016
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